The Caucasus
Killing of Said Buryatsky Unlikely to Deter North Caucasus Insurgency
March 11, 2010
A key event in early March, was the death of one of the chief ideologues of the armed resistance in the North Caucasus, Said Buryatsky (Aleksandr Tikhomirov) (www.1tv.ru, March 5). He was killed in the village of Ekazhevo in...
US House Vote Adds New Twist to Turkey-Armenia Diplomacy
March 10, 2010
A key committee in the United States House of Representatives has once again approved a draft resolution recognizing the 1915 mass killings and deportations of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as genocide. The dramatic...
Turkish-American relations Face Another Test Over the Armenian Issue
March 9, 2010
The United States House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs Committee narrowly passed a resolution, which calls on the president to refer to the killing of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire during World War I as “genocide.”...
Ingush Organize Demonstration to Protest Against Kidnappings of Compatriots
March 9, 2010
On March 6, several hundred protestors in Ingushetia’s Plievo settlement, which is situated in the vicinity of Nazran, the republic’s largest town, blocked local highways and demanded that authorities investigate the kidnapping...
Russia’s President Visits North Caucasus Offering No Real Solution to its Main Problem
March 5, 2010In the eleventh year of conflict in the North Caucasus, the Russian leadership intends (yet again) to radically change the situation to its advantage. With this intent, on February 27, President Dmitry Medvedev unexpectedly...
Said Buryatsky Reported to be Among Six Militants Killed in Ingushetia
March 5, 2010Russian news agencies reported today (March 5) that Aleksandr Tikhomirov, aka, Sheik Said Buryatsky, the Muslim convert from eastern Siberia’s Buryat republic who became the main ideologist of the North Caucasus insurgency, was...
The North Caucasus Receives Unprecedented Attention from Russian Leaders
March 3, 2010On March 1, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin made an unannounced brisk visit to the North Caucasus. In the North Ossetian town of Beslan, Putin met the head of North Ossetia, Taimuraz Mamsurov, and in the capital of Ingushetia,...
Is the Kremlin Announcement a new Drive to Suppress Government Critics?
March 2, 2010
On February 27, President Dmitry Medvedev made a surprise trip to the North Caucasus, visiting Nalchik in Kabardino-Balkaria and Cherkessk in the neighboring republic of Karachaevo-Cherkessia. The Russian president reiterated...
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