Tag: Caucasus
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…
Armenia-Azerbaijan: three questions on the resurgence of violence in the Caucasus
These are new fights which illustrate how the situation remains explosive between Azerbaijan and Armenia, two countries whose relations are historically tense. At least 49 Armenian soldiers were killed on…
The oldest known straws were made of gold and silver and were used to drink beer
The function of precious funerary objects discovered at the end of the 19thand century in Russia has been the subject of much speculation among archaeologists. These long silver and gold…