Tag: Caucasus
UN court expands dispute over Caucasus
share-arrowShare unsaveSave expand-left full screen International Court ICJ in The Hague. Photo: Peter Dejong/AP/TT The International Court of Justice in The Hague (ICJ) has jurisdiction to review the conflict between…
In the Caucasus or the United States, democracy threatened in the two Georgias – L’Express
A priori, they have nothing in common, apart from their name. And yet, the two Georgias dramatically symbolize the threats weighing on Western democracies. In Europe, in this small Caucasian…
Putin offers mediation help in Caucasus conflict
share-arrowShare unsaveSave expand-left full screen Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) and Azeri leader Ilham Aliyev at a reception in Baku. Photo: Mikhail Tereshchenko/Kremlin Via Pool/AP/TT Russian President Vladimir Putin offers…
what we know about terrorist attacks in the Caucasus – L’Express
Armed men attacked Orthodox churches and at least one synagogue in the Russian Caucasus on Sunday June 24, killing 19 people, including a priest, police officers and four civilians, authorities…
attacks on churches and a synagogue kill at least ten people in the Caucasus
At least one priest and several police officers have been killed in attacks in two towns in Dagestan, in the Russian Caucasus. Armed men attacked a synagogue in the town…
Young and educated city dwellers do not swallow a return to the bosom of Russia – large-scale demonstrations in the Caucasus at the weekend | Foreign countries
Georgia, located in the Caucasus, Russia’s southern neighbor, is bubbling. Over the weekend, large crowds marched through the streets of the capital Tbilisi wrapped in EU and Georgian flags. Tens…
The anti-Jewish unrest caught the Kremlin by surprise – the Russian leadership blames the events in the North Caucasus on Ukraine and the West
MOSCOW The anti-Jewish unrest that flared up in the North Caucasus over the weekend seems to have taken the Russian authorities by surprise. Russia’s North Caucasus is used to being…
In a week, 100,000 people fled for their lives from an area the size of Kuopio in the Caucasus
People have created a classic enemy image of each other. Armenians and Azerbaijanis have a bloody past behind them. This is how the researcher describes it Kristiina Silvan the reason…
PODCAST. Ramzan Kadyrov, from vassal of Putin to emir of the Caucasus?
In this episode of La Loupe, Xavier Yvon paints the portrait of Ramzan Kadyrov, the President of the Republic of Chechnya, with Léo Vidal-Giraud, journalist specializing in Russia, and former…
a new war in the Caucasus?
Armenia and Azerbaijan accuse each other of new attacks on September 14. On the night of Monday September 12 to Tuesday September 13, clashes between Azerbaijani and Armenian forces left…