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"People felt there was an alternative to the armed struggle," says Ekaterina Sokirianskaia, who covers the north Caucasus at the International Crisis Group.

From 1985--1989, she chaired the Research Department of Ethnography of the Peoples of Central Asia and the Caucasus, at the State Ethnographic Museum of the Peoples of the former USSR in St.Petersburg.

In many ways Tatarstan does not resemble the north Caucasus at all.

There was another major foundation called Alexandria in the Caucasus at an important junction of communications in the Hindu Kush.

'He seems to have flipped,' said James Nixey an expert on the Caucasus at the Royal Institute for International Affairs.

Oil, published in 1931, tells the story of oil production in the Caucasus at the time of the first Five Year Plan.

"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.

"The Vilayat Dagestan command … indicates that mujahideen from the Caucasus are not at war with the United States of America," the group said in a statement.

James Nixey, a Russia expert at the London-based Chatham House thinktank, said: "You have to look at the North Caucasus". He said that did not necessarily mean Chechnya, "where Ramzan Kadyrov, Russia's puppet president and local strongman, has achieved a reasonable level of control and where guerrilla activity has been squeezed out elsewhere to Ingushetia and Dagestan".

It would also help if the Caucasus countries were less nationalist and better at working together.

Along with the ragtag spoils of war, photographs displayed at the exhibition, titled "The Caucasus: Five Days in August," portray Russia's victory over Georgia as absolute.