RFE/RL Caucasus Report
27.07.2012
A review of RFE/RL reporting and analysis about the countries of the South Caucasus and Russia's North Caucasus region.
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Georgia Denies Huge Olympics Cash Prize
Georgia's Ministry of Sports and Youth has denied reports that Georgia will provide huge cash prizes for Georgian athletes who win gold at the London Olympics. More Kristine Esebua is the only archer on Georgia’s team for the 2012 London Olympics. At her third games, the 27-year-old is hoping to add to the silver medal she won at last year’s world championships. More 
Georgia Storm Victims Receive Flood Of Attention In Campaign Season
Residents in eastern Georgia are just beginning to recover from a brutal hailstorm last week that destroyed crops, killed livestock, and left buildings decimated. And with parliamentary elections looming in October, both President Mikheil Saakashvili and opposition leader Bidzina Ivanishvili are jockeying to use the relief efforts to score political points. More 
Georgian Opposition Tycoon Pays Fine
The leader of the opposition Georgian Dream coalition, Bidzina Ivanishvili, has announced he has transferred 80 million laris, or about $48 million, to the Georgian state treasury. More The village of Khndzoresk is rich in history, but it took a new feat of engineering to draw crowds of tourists to this remote region of southeastern Armenia. More 
One Chechen's Cry From A Russian Jail -- 'Do These People Have Hearts?'
The Russian authorities say the war in Chechnya is over and reconstruction is well under way. But rights activists say the republic's uneasy calm is happening amid thousands of extrajudicial disappearances, cases of torture, and trumped-up legal processes. RFE/RL's North Caucasus Service correspondent Amina Umarova recently spoke to one Chechen man who is serving an 18-year sentence for a conviction he claims is based entirely on evidence obtained by torture. This is his story. More 
Defeated Challenger Says Karabakh Election Was 'Free But Not Fair'
Incumbent Bako Sahakian was reelected on July 19 as de facto president of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic with 66.70 percent of the vote, almost 20 percent less than he received in 2007. More 
'Shameful' Folktale Of Incest, Vulgarity Causes Outrage In Azerbaijan
Five years after it was published by Azerbaijan's distinguished National Academy of Sciences, an anthology of “traditional” folklore has caused quite a stir in the Caspian Sea state. More Firefighters have extinguished a blaze at the Heydar Aliyev Center in Azerbaijan's capital, Baku. More 
Fire Strikes Baku's Heydar Aliyev Center
Firefighters have extinguished a blaze at the Heydar Aliyev Center in Azerbaijan's capital, Baku. Officials said 50 firefighting brigades and several helicopters were deployed to bring the blaze under control. (Video by RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service0 More |
