 RFE/RL Caucasus Report 10/22/2010 6:30:02 PM A review of RFE/RL reporting and analysis about the countries of the South Caucasus and Russia's North Caucasus region. For more stories on the Caucasus, please visit and bookmark our Caucasus page . |
 Russia To Host Fresh Karabakh Talks The presidents of Russia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan are to meet next week for talks on resolving the long-standing dispute over the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. More  Armenian Suit Targets Vote Crackdown A senior Armenian opposition official says he does not expect a Yerevan court to accept a case filed by more than 100 supporters charging security forces with violations during protests two years ago that resulted in deaths and injuries. More  Former Armenian President Hopes for Prisoners Release Former Armenian President Levon Ter-Petrosian says he is optimistic that those of his supporters still serving prison terms for their participation in the post-election violence in March 2008 will be released very soon. More  Georgian Jail For Russian Trespasser Kazbeg Dzugkoev, who is from Vladikavkaz in the Russian republic of North Ossetia, was detained in Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia earlier this month and sentenced on October 21. More  Despite Official Measures, Bride Kidnapping Endemic In Chechnya Bride abductions are an endemic phenomenon in the Caucasus and Central Asia. In Chechnya alone, rights activists say as many as one in four marriages begin with the woman being kidnapped and forced to wed against her will. More  Georgia Opens Visa-Free Travel In Caucasus Tbilisi's unilateral lifting of visa requirements for Russians living in the North Caucasus has angered the Kremlin, while Georgians who live near the border say Russia should follow suit. More  Georgia Gets A More Democratic Constitution, Though The Process Is Not Perfect Ghia Nodia says opinions about amendments to Georgia's constitution proceed from two radically opposed points of view -- one side proceeding from a consideration of the political future of President Mikheil Saakashvili and the other looking at the content of the changes themselves. More  Grozny Attack Underscores Chechen Insurgents' Military Capabilities There has not yet been any claim of responsibility for the suicide attack on the parliament building in Grozny. But there can be little doubt that it was planned and carried out by the same group of veteran Chechen field commanders who were responsible for the equally audacious attack on Ramzan Kadyrov's home village. More  Umarov Again Lambastes Dissident Field Commanders Self-styled Caucasus Emirate head Doku Umarov has issued a new denunciation of the four senior field commanders who rescinded their oath of loyalty to him two months ago, and whom he has since stripped of their respective commands. More |
