The Boston Marathon bombing this month sent people scrambling for maps and encyclopedias after it was revealed that the suspects, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, were ethnic Chechens with ties to ...

An international research team, coordinated by the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (MPI-SHH) and the Eurasia Department of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) in Berlin, is ...

On 4 October 2010 the Russian Federation government website published the full text, complete with tables and appendices, of a development strategy for the North Caucasus, Russia’s most troubled and ...

If you ask the average Russian to name things associated with the Caucasus, the list would probably look something like this: mountains, snow, war, Dzhigit, hill people, Islam, cuisine, hospitality ...

A series of suicide bombings ahead of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi has brought new attention to Russia’s unstable North Caucasus region. The violence highlights governance and counterterrorism ...

While visiting Georgia’s Pankisi Gorge towards the end of the second Chechen War (1999-2009), what struck me most was the large number of Christian graves that resembled Muslim tombstones. I was also ...