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 ...

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.

The Islamic State group has proclaimed a province in the Caucasus. But can it eclipse the main rebel player there - the al-Qaeda-linked Caucasus Emirate? The BBC's Sarah Rainsford reports from Moscow.

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 ...