Article: ALLAH'S MOUNTAINS POLITICS AND WAR IN THE RUSSIAN CAUCASUS.

Article: Thousands still missing in North Caucasus - Russian ...
BBC Monitoring International Reports;  May 26, 2009 ;     648 words ... ... kidnapped or have disappeared in the North Caucasus since the year 2000, human rights ... Chechnya since 2000 is not known". "The North Caucasus still remains one of the worst regions ... contributes to human rights violations in the North Caucasus is the armed confrontation, ...

Article: Judge is latest victim in North Caucasus Region's ...
International Herald Tribune;  June 11, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... 11-2009 Judge is latest victim in North Caucasus Region's rising death toll is reminder ... count among officials in the volatile North Caucasus region of Russia keeps rising. A high ... potent source of instability in the North Caucasus, a region that has known little peace ...

Article: News Analysis: Why is Russia staging major drills in North ...
Xinhua News Agency;  June 30, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... Why is Russia staging major drills in North Caucasus? by Xinhua Writers Hai Yang, Lu Jingli ... 2009" military exercises in the North Caucasus area bordering Georgia on Monday ... Andrei Bobrun, a spokesman for the North Caucasus military district, told Itar-Tass ...

Article: BBC Russian brings together bloggers from across North ...
M2 Presswire;  August 18, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... brings together bloggers from across North Caucasus(C)1994-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS ... drama, the security situation in the North Caucasus is deteriorating. The website of BBC ... about key issues faced by people in the North Caucasus. Capture of the School No. 1 in Beslan ...

Article: NORTH CAUCASUS SETBACKS PROMPT MILITARY ...
Info-Prod Research (Middle East);  July 20, 2004 ;     335 words ... ... of Interior Ministry troops in the North Caucasus, was also released, as was Federal ... oversaw the FSB's operations in the North Caucasus. In addition, the commander of the North Caucasus Military District, Army General Vladimir ...

Article: Qaeda agent killed in North Caucasus: Russia.
Al Arabiya (Saudi Arabia);  August 30, 2009 ;     608 words ... ... second rebel fighter in its troubled North Caucasus region of Dagestan. Russian officials ... second rebel fighter in its troubled North Caucasus region of Dagestan. Russian officials ... violence in Dagestan and the other two North Caucasus regions of Chechnya and Ingushetia ...

Article: Former official killed in Russia's North Caucasus
AP Worldstream;  June 13, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... Ingushetia this week _ to highlight North Caucasus' continuing turmoil. Two gunmen sprayed ... Russia's poorest regions. Like other North Caucasus regions, it has seen an alarming spike ... the top law enforcement of another North Caucasus region, Dagestan, was killed by a ...