On average, Russians rest for 4 hours and 7 minutes a day, but residents of the North Caucasian republics have the most free ...

To many casual Russia watchers out there, it might seem that the recent military confrontation between Iran and Israel went ...

Relations between Russia and Azerbaijan hit an all-time low this week, as simmering tensions over the death of two ...

The North Caucasus region is the part of Russia that slopes up towards the main ridge of the Caucasus mountains, often considered the border between Europe and Asia. It is home to dozens of ...

Russia’s troubled North Caucasus region continues to struggle with a low-level Islamic insurgency, but a heavy-handed approach to counterinsurgency has not addressed the root causes of ...

A series of suicide bombings ahead of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi has brought new attention to Russia's unstable North Caucasus region. Read more in this Council on Foreign Relations ...

The North Caucasus needs a microloan program. Based on my field research in the region, if there is one single, simple thing that would help the North Caucasus, it is the construction of highland ...

Over the past 15 years, Russia's North Caucasus has become a byword for war, destruction, human rights abuses, extrajudicial killings, corruption, economic collapse, and Islamic terrorism. Last ...

Has Doku Umarov's declaration of a North Caucasus emirate split the resistance? (RFE/RL) November 1, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- In the two years since the raids on police and security facilities in Nalchik ...

More than a year after the anti-Semitic riots, tensions in the Russian North Caucasus remain high. When an anti-Semitic mob targeted individuals of Jewish descent in Dagestan at the end of October ...

The North Caucasus region is the part of Russia that slopes up towards the main ridge of the Caucasus mountains, often considered the border between Europe and Asia.