Designers from one of the North Caucasus republics, who have been designing ready-to-wear collections that incorporate elements of the national Karachay-Cherkess dress for several years, have ...

The Caucasus: An Introduction is an excellent resource for journalists and diplomats, or anyone who needs to learn fast. It is compact yet comprehensive, with maps and colorful “side-bar” sections ...

Under President Joe Biden's watch, Azerbaijan has been allowed to get away with a series of aggressions, culminating in the September 2023 destruction of the autonomous enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh.

For much of the past three decades, the South Caucasus has been internally fragmented, with former imperial hegemon Russia attempting to manipulate the region’s multiple conflicts to keep Armenia, ...

View Larger Map. When the Caucasus became part of Russia, it became a natural holiday resort. At first, the region was accessible only to the aristocracy, but later vacationers from all social ...

When George Kennan set out for the Caucasus in 1870, few if any Americans had explored the highlands of Dagestan, Chechnya and the wild frontiers of imperial Russia. And with good reason.

Speaking on June 25 at the NATO foreign ministers' meeting in Brussels, Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the organization's September summit in Wales will not address the question of ...

Because geography and language are so tightly linked in the Caucasus they couldn't obtain statistically significant results when one variable was controlled, but language seems to be a bigger ...

DR. OSWALD'S colour-printed map of the Caucasus is on the scale of 1: 1,000,000, and covers the country from the Sea of Azov to the Caspian. We may regret that the heights are given in English ...