Russians in Biggest Cities Feel the Most Pain from Crisis, Gudkov Says

Paul Goble

 Russians living in the largest cities, the people who benefited the most from the oil-driven boom of the last decade, now feel the greatest concern about the impact on their lives of the economic crisis because they are better informed than those in smaller ones and rural areas, a pattern that suggests how Vladimir Putin may now proceed.

Circassians in soul searching in 150th year of Turkey exile

Israeli government approves $47 million investment in Druze and Circassian communities

The Israeli government on Sunday approved Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s request to appropriate 185 million shekels ($47 million) in development funds for Druze and Circassian towns in Israel.

Conference on 150th year of the Circassian exile to take place

The Federation of the Caucasian Associations in Turkey (KAF-FED) will hold a conference on the 150th anniversary of the Circassian exile in Ankara on Dec. 13-14, within the scope of Human Rights week.

Will Russia Follow the USSR -- and for the Same Reasons?

Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of November 24-30

Signing of Russian-Abkhaz alliance and strategic partnership treaty; ECtHR's award of 15,000 euros of compensation to ex-Mayor of Makhachkala Said Amirov; eighth delivery of humanitarian aid from Russia to Donbas; mass poisoning in Armenian kindergarten;