GEORGIA'S MOUNTING OPPOSITION

Irakly Areshidze

Is This the Beginning of the End for Putin?

President Vladimir Putin's rule started with the Moscow apartment bombings in 1999 and with his promises to establish order in the country. By Boris Kagarlitsky

Russian roulette for Iraq

By Fehim Taştekin

RUSSIA BOOSTS ALLIANCE WITH ARMENIA AS U.S. GAINS FOOTHOLD IN GEORGIA

Emil Danielyan

Policy of positive discrimination for the titular nation in Adygeya

Since the re-establishment of the Russian state as a reformed asymmetric federation, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, with the acceptance of Federal Constitution of 1993, a number of ethno-republics within it have come into limelight for the tensions within them between the titular and non-titular nations, such as the Republics of Bashkortostan, North Ossetia-Alania, Adygeya and Tuva. BY ZEYNEL A. BESLENEY

The history of the Karachai-Balkarian people

General information about Balkarians and Karachais  Early ancestors of Balkarians and their territory  The Hun-Bulgarian stage of the formation of Balkarians and Karachais Alans and 'as' as The Ancestors of Balkarians and Karachais  Balkaria and Karachai in XV -XVII centurises  Economy and material culture of Balkaria and Karachai in XIV-XIX. centuries By Ismail M. Miziyev

Historical narratives in the Caucasus By Moshe Gammer