29 May 2013
Kleine landjes — Berichten uit de Kaukasus
Jelle Brandt Corstius
Prometheus, Amsterdam
February 2009
170 pages
ISBN: 978-90-446-1311-7
Kleine landjes is an account of a series of trips made by the Dutch journalist Jelle Brandt Corstius, generally stationed in Moscow, to Chechnya, Kalmykia, Abkhazia, Karachay-Cherkessia and Ossetia. It is not really …
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27 March 2013
Eight Pieces of Empire — A 20-Year Journey through the Soviet Collapse
Lawrence Scott Sheets
Crown Publishers, New York
November 2011
336 pages
ISBN: 978-0-307-39582-5
The publication of Eight Pieces of Empire is good news, because Lawrence Scott Sheets — currently South Caucasus project director for the International Crisis Group — is one …
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24 December 2009
In my post on the Prigorodny District I mentioned the fact that part of the District had been transferred from Ingushetia to North Ossetia following Stalin's 1944 expulsion of the 'guilty' Ingush people to Central Asia. I've found a very useful map of the North Caucasus on Wikipedia (uploaded by …
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22 December 2009
Window on Eurasia draws attention to a story which RFE/RL seems not to have covered: on 17 December Taymuraz Mamsurov, President of North Ossetia-Alania, and Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, President of Ingushetia, signed an agreement over the Prigorodny District.
The conflict over the Prigorodny District is one of the many conflicts …
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