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Russia responded "harshly" to Georgia, he said, "saving hundreds and thousands of lives and restoring peace in the Caucasus that was at serious risk".

And yet, Mr. Putin said, Mi-26's were still being used to shuttle troops in and out of Chechnya, the republic in the Caucasus that is in the grip of a separatist rebellion.

"The main problem for Armenia is that we are very much concentrated on our past," said Michael Hambazdzumyan, 22, a recent university graduate who is working to build a network of young people in the Caucasus that will press for regional cooperation.

Russia is building a string of ski resorts in areas of the Caucasus that once teemed with Islamist militants.

His experience there imbued other stories, like "The Cossacks," "The Raid" and "Hadji Murad," with a sense of place and an understanding of the Caucasus that seemed newly relevant when Russia became deeply and violently entangled there once again in the 1990s.

Historically-minded dance lovers should note that this "Legend of Tamar" has nothing to do with "Thamar," a work set in the Caucasus that Michel Fokine choreographed for the Diaghilev Ballets Russes in 1912 and which was danced for several decades.

But he stayed with the remnants of the Caucasus group that did not join Isis, instead pledging themselves to Jabhat al-Nusra, the al-Qaida-linked group in Syria.

At present, eligible are countries of Africa, Central Asia, the Caucasus, Eastern Europe that are not members of the EU, Russia, Latin America, the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia as well as the People's Republic of China.

In 2007, the rebel leader Doku Umarov abandoned the goal of Chechen independence and declared jihad instead, vowing to establish a fundamentalist Caucasus Emirate that would span the entire region.

Son-preference in the Caucasus suggests that traditional values are reviving.In other respects, the Caucasus may not be so exceptional.

In fact, Pentagon and military officials say Russia held a major ground exercise in July just north of Georgia's border, called Caucasus 2008, that played out a chain of events like the one carried out over recent days.