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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Conflict has racked the North Caucasus region. It’s not clear if the Boston Marathon bombing suspects were radicalized as a result of apparent Chechen roots ...

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 ...

Several attacks in Russia's volatile North Caucasus region have left two police officers dead and another five wounded, officials said Saturday.

To date, Georgia has dropped visa requirements for Russian citizens from the North Caucasus; launched parliamentary hearings on recognizing as genocide Tsarist Russia’s 1864 slayings of North ...

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.