Azerbaijan has been pushing back against Russian dominance in the Caucasus region, seeking closer ties with Turkey and Israel ...

View Larger Map. When the Caucasus became part of Russia, it became a natural holiday resort. At first, the region was accessible only to the aristocracy, but later vacationers from all social ...

The Caucasus is in the middle." Then came more lines, squiggles and arrows: bottom left - the Mediterranean, to which the Caucasus provides an outlet; bottom right - Iran and Turkey; dominating at the ...

A rift has developed between Russia and Azerbaijan, which have had long political, economic and cultural ties.

If anyone is changing maps in the region, it is Iran’s partner Russia. For more than a decade, Russian troops have occupied two breakaway regions of Georgia, Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

The Caucasus and Central Asia have also benefited from the hundreds of thousands of Russian emigrants, or relokanty, who have fled from their homeland. They are mostly young, educated and wealthy.

A year after Russia defeated neighbour Georgia's military bid to retake a pro-Moscow region from rebels, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Saturday the war had redrawn the map of the ...

Russia's regime is manipulating the Armenian minority in Azerbaijan's Karabakh to stir ethnic conflicts in the South Caucasus and to replace the Armenian government with a Moscow proxy. The ...