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A euronews documentary on the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabkah is stoking acrimony, with Azerbaijani officials accusing the European broadcaster of harboring bias against Baku. The nine-minute November 28 documentary, titled Winds of Change in Nagorno-Karabakh,...
Tags: Azerbaijanis, Yeni Azerbaijani Party, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Baku, Elhan Poluhov, Emin Huseynov, NTRC, media rights, Peter Barabas, Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Outline of Nagorno-Karabakh, Nagorno-Karabakh, Ethnic minorities in Azerbaijan, Caucasus
In a Tuesday meeting with Iranian Ambassador Mahmoud-Reza Sajjadi, Russia's Deputy Ecology Minister Igor Maidanov asked Iran to help the project of reintroducing leopards to the Caucasus region. Turkmenistan gave Russia two male leopards, but the country...
Tags: Russian Caucasus, Persian, persian leopards, Iran, Russia, Sochi, Iranian culture, Persian Leopard, Leopards, Politics, Persian people, Amur Leopard, Caucasus, Vladimir Putin
Armenia agrees on Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity Published: 12/6/2009 The Armenian National Congress blamed Yerevan for recognizing Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity. National Congress said that Karabakh conflict could only be resolved through the...
Tags: territorial integrity, Armenian National Congress, Azerbaijan, Baku, Armenia, Politics, Western Asia, Landlocked countries, Republics, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Caucasus
Olympic challenge for Sochi games Officially the Winter Olympics are non-politicised – but the reality is that wherever Russia goes, politics will follow Russia will be holding a national referendum to select its mascot for the 2014 Winter Olympics in...
Tags: winter olympic, Sochi, Russia, Winter Olympics, Disputed territories, Politics, Western Asia, Jacques Rogge, Lausanne, allnews, Olympic Games, Olympics, Winter Olympic Games, Olympic boycotts, Abkhazia, South Ossetia war, Caucasus, International Olympic Committee
According to official results, Felix Kaziahkmedov from the pro-Kremlin United Russia party won the mayoral seat for a second term with 67.5 per cent of the vote. The action against the outcome of the vote was brought by three other candidates for the...
Tags: United Russia, Russian Federation, Fair Russia, voting results, North Caucasus, Republic of Dagestan, Imamali Yaraliev, Dmitry Medvedev, elections results, Khadir Yusupov, Russia, Derbent, Elections in Russia, Politics, Electronic voting, Caspian Sea, Caucasus, Dagestan, Sassanid dynasty
By signing on December 2 in Athens statement 5 of the Foreign Ministers of the Karabakh Armenian authorities for the first time acknowledged that this conflict can be resolved under the principle of territorial integrity of Azerbaijan. This today...
Tags: Azerbaijani, territorial integrity, allnews, Armenia, Yerevan, Nagorno-Karabakh, Caucasus, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Politics, Serzh Sargsyan, Athens, Levon Zurabian
More than a year after Russia and Georgia clashed in a short but brutal war, the two countries are continuing their dispute on the movie screen. Russian filmmakers have already released a slick documentary as well as a romantic feature that depicts Georgia...
Tags: Russia-Georgia, Georgia-Russia, Georgian, Russian, American, Mikheil Saakashvili, Andy García, Igor Voloshin, Russia, Moscow, South Ossetia, Politics, Western Asia, Responsibility for the 2008 South Ossetia war, South Ossetia war, Background of the 2008 South Ossetia war, Georgia, Caucasus, Entertainment Culture
Brussels Thursday. "Many human wounds have to heal, but reforms and modernization and a determination to improve neighbourly relations offer the best prospects of a better future for the Georgian people," he said. South Ossetia and Abkhazia regions of...
Tags: Georgian, NATO, Russia, foreign ministers, nato foreign, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, nato ministers, Georgia, Tbilisi, Disputed territories, South Ossetia, Politics, Western Asia, Abkhazia, South Ossetia war, Caucasus, War Conflict
Georgia on Tuesday denied entry to the head of the Russian State Archive and a Russian analyst as they arrived in Tbilisi to attend a conference, prompting four other Russians from their delegation to pull out of the event in protest. Sergei Mironenko,...
Tags: Georgian, MOSCOW � Georgia, denied entry, Russian State Archive, Russia, Moscow, Politics, Western Asia, Republics, South Ossetia war, Tbilisi, Georgia, Caucasus, Sargis Kakabadze, War Conflict
After a brief trip in Metro cars, the proton and ion teams exited at one station and collided on the platform, making a mess on the floor. The political movement Rossiya Molodaya (Young Russia) has claimed to be behind the event, but made no statements...
Tags: Moscow Metro, NATO-Russia, Russian, Young Russia, film festivities, short film, Burkina Faso, Lon, War Conflict, Politics, NATO, South Ossetia war, Sergey Lavrov, Battle of Moscow, South Ossetia, Moscow, Beer Hall Putsch, Anti-communism, Lavrov, Nucleons, Human Interest, Abkhazia, Proton, Caucasus, Jet aircraft, United Aircraft Corporation, CERN, Ilyushin, Weather, Disputed territories, Physics