Never again will a Georgian command the same international authority.
The green walls of Eduard Shevardnadze's study in his residence outside Tbilisi are decked with portraits of world
The Caucasus region is a small and troubled place. It should be a common endeavour where its small and diverse nationalities - in Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan as well as
Outside the theatre in Tiraspol, where a bride in a long white frilly dress was posing for photographs, a billboard hung bearing the pictures of a trio of large sturdy
In the space of a few days, a conflict over a tiny piece of land has sparked an unfolding catastrophe in the Caucasus. At its heart of this catastrophe is
The Caucasus is the kind of place where, when the guns start firing,
it's hard to stop them. That is the brutal reality of South Ossetia,
where a
If you're deep in the trenches, stop digging. Both Russia and Georgia have warned of the danger of war over the Black Sea territory of Abkhazia, but they
The North Ossetian town of Beslan will forever be associated with the horrific end to the school siege in which around 335 people, half of them children, died after being
* Thomas de Waal, journalist and Caucasus expert: A fresh look
* Zeyno Baran, Hudson Institute: Two different cases
* Thomas de Waal: The sovereignty option
* Zeyno Baran, Hudson Institute: Stability is the
A mile from the Black Sea in central Abkhazia you can see the crimson-and-mustard striped domes of New Athos, a grand 19th-century monastery built at the height of the czarist
In January 2005, in one of Russias most depressed towns, I had dinner with a remarkable man. Musa Shanib (also known by the Russianised name Yuri Shanibov) has a
