Sentence examples for caucasus's from inspiring English sources

Who could be considered Caucasian is one question, but the Caucasus's strife had opened an even more fraught concern: What did the people from the Caucasus, now Russia's south, actually look like?

The corrupt monopolisation of wealth, and bullying of rival business, also lurks behind the unemployment that drives young men towards fanaticism.Fatalistic observers blame these problems on the north Caucasus's wretched past, with its ethnic rivalries, incessant wars, the deportation of entire nations by Stalin, and the Soviet mixing of fractious peoples into unnatural administrative units.

Today Armenia controls not only Nagorno-Karabakh but also seven villages in Azerbaijan proper, and soldiers are frequently killed along the ceasefire line.Marching through GeorgiaIt was on August 7th that the world woke up to the dangers of the Caucasus's territorial conflicts.

They are also meant to remind the world of the tragedy that befell the Circassians of the Caucasus's Black Sea shore exactly 150 years ago this winter.

The Caucasus Emirate's goal is a separate Islamic state in the traditionally Muslim areas of southern Russia.

To revive its agricultural industry, the Georgian government is inviting groups of white South African farmers to settle and farm there - but not everyone thinks it is such a good idea, reports the BBC's Caucasus correspondent Damien McGuinness.

BANDITS, terrorists, clan rivalries, lawless security forces and corrupt officials make Russia's north Caucasus the murkiest part of an often opaque country.

Memorial, a Russian human-rights group, called the killing a "demonstrative and cynical crime" and "act of state terror".For the past 17 years, the north Caucasus has been Russia's poorest and most violent region.

Magomed Yevloyev, the editor of an opposition website in Russia's north Caucasus territory of Ingushetia, was detained by the police as he arrived in Nazran on a flight from Moscow on August 31st.

Georgi Gogia, director of Human Rights Watch's South Caucasus Division, said the "dramatic" punishments imposed on the police officers "could be a sign that there will be accountability for what happened on July 29".

That's true; yet the problems in the north Caucasus are largely of Russia's own making.