Sentence examples for A caucasus from inspiring English sources

A Turkish appeal last month for a "Caucasus stability pact" between Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey was a veiled warning to the Russians to cease meddling in countries to the south of Chechnya.

"If we have no process, what's left is a vacuum, which gets filled with an escalation toward war; we'll see how the Armenian side reacts, but that's my fear," said Thomas de Waal, a Caucasus specialist at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington.

And it has vocal if small minorities from all over the region, including Abkhaz and Ossetians.Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has just been to Moscow and Tbilisi to promote a "Caucasus Stability and Co-operation Platform", a scheme that calls for new methods of crisis management and conflict resolution.

Yarmuk, a local militant Islamic group with Chechen links, said that its fighters had been involved on the ground as part of a Caucasus Front.

The organisation of a Caucasus Front against Russia was decreed in May 2005 by the late Chechen rebel leader Abdul-Khalim Saydullayev. Abdul-Khalim Saydullayev

Seven years ago, despite Russia's brutal crackdown on separatists, Chechen terror mastermind Doku Umarov declared a Caucasus Emirate in the region.

President Mikheil Saakashvili called that a step towards his vision of vision of a "united Caucasus", stable, secure and with a common market, which he promoted on September 23rd in a speech to the UN General Assembly.Russia detests the Georgian leader and denounced the move as a "provocation"; Sergei Lavrov, the Foreign Minister, dismissed it as propaganda.

There was a fireworks display followed by lezginka – a traditional Caucasus dance performed by two girls and three small boys.

Shortly after the war, Turkey launched a proposed "Caucasus Stability and Co-operation Platform", which even the Russians applauded.

After Russian forces launched a second offensive against Chechnya, killing a succession of rebel commanders, he recast himself as the leader of a pan-Caucasus jihadi movement.

A11 World Briefing A8 NATION CHALLENGED A12-13 Militantslitants Gather In a Caucasus Haven Georgian officials say some Afghan and Arab fighters hiding in the Caucasus Mountains are plotting terrorist strikes in Russia or seeking to reach Europe and the United States, possibly to mount attacks.