RFE/RL CAUCASUS REPORT
11/4/2011 8:16:02 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 . |
 Radicalization Splitting Society In Russia's North Caucasus Outside the violent North Caucasus, there may be a growing perception that a certain, even managed, level of instability suits one or more groups among the authorities in Moscow. But as Prime Minister Vladimir Putin prepares to return to the presidency next year, developments in Daghestan and elsewhere show the situation in the Caucasus is anything but stable, and that traditional society is tearing at the seams.More  Fear And Loathing: Russian Attitudes Help Fuel Instability In The North Caucasus The tiny village of Balakhani clings to a mountainside at the end of a rough dirt road winding high into the Caucasus Mountains in Russia's region of Daghestan.More  Podcast: Hell On Earth...And Hope In Cyberspace In Episode 43 of The Blender, we look at how a growing culture of violence is destroying traditional ways of life in the North Caucasus republic of Daghestan. Plus, the challenges ahead for the new Kyrgyz president, and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's plans for using the Internet to forge links with ordinary people in Iran. More  South Ossetia Election Plot Thickens It is becoming increasingly difficult to say whether the presidential election campaign in Georgia's breakaway Republic of South Ossetia is a geopolitical thriller, a soap opera with a cast dominated by former wrestling champions, a farce -- or a combination of all three. More  Georgian Tycoon Fights For Citizenship A Georgian billionaire who was stripped of his citizenship after joining the opposition has accused the country's authorities of seeking to end his political career. More  Russian TV Yanks Torture Report Viewers in the Russian Far East this week saw a surprisingly hard-hitting news report about alleged human rights abuses in Chechnya. Normally, heavily state-controlled Russian television depicts the republic as a peaceful and thriving region. But viewers in European Russia did not see the controversial story after Gazprom's NTV television pulled it for "reworking." More  In Oil-Rich Azerbaijan, Exploitation Growing Of Cheap Foreign Labor Energy-rich Azerbaijan has become an attractive destination for foreign laborers looking for employment. But many end up working in circumstances that are illegal and exploitative. More |
