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Armenia accuses Turkey of Committing a Second Genocide with Azerbaijan
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, in an interview with Le Figaro, reiterated his position that the Turkish army is leading a direct offensive by Azerbaijani units against Armenian ethnic forces around Nagorno-Karabakh. “The Turkish state, which continues to deny its past, is once again entering the genocide path,” he added. However, he did not provide evidence of Turkey’s alleged military...
Russia militants vow allegiance to ISIL
Takfiri militants in four regions of Russia’s Caucasus have taken oath of allegiance to the ISIL terrorist group operating in Iraq and Syria, according to a recording recently posted online.
Based on the voice recording which emerged on video sharing website YouTube on Sunday, Muslim militants in Dagestan, Chechnya, Ingushetia and Kabardino-Balkaria regions have all pledged allegiance to ISIL leader...
Over 380 detained after anti-migrant riot in southern Moscow
Moscow police detained some 380 people during the mass rioting in a southern district of the city. A mixed crowd of nationalists and locals attacked a warehouse run by natives of the Caucasus, blaming a migrant for the fatal stabbing of a local.
Authorities lifted the emergency plan codenamed “Volcano” after midnight, several hours after public order had been restored. The plan, put into effect...
Assassination attempt on presidential candidate may delay Armenian elections
An Armenian presidential candidate from the Union for National Self-Determination party has been shot and wounded in the center of Yerevan, the country’s capital. The attempt on Paruyr Hayrikyan’s life may delay the election.
Following the incident, the 64 year-old Hayrikyan was rushed to the Saint Gregory the Illuminator medical center with two gunshot wounds, in the shoulder and in the...
Armenia expresses readiness for war with Azerbaijan
Azerbaijani military officer Ramil Safarov lays flowers at Martyrs’ Alley national memorial in the capital Baku on August 31, 2012.
Armenia has expressed readiness for a war with its arch-foe, the Republic of Azerbaijan, after Baku pardoned and promoted an Azerbaijani officer who axed an Armenian soldier to death.
“We don’t want a war, but if we have to, we will fight and win. We are...
Russia Plans to Flatten Georgia if Israel Attacks Iran
Russia is building up forces in the Caucasus region, preparing to protect its interests in case Israel attacks Iran with the help of the United States, the western media said.
GenerationalDynamics.com and the Business Insider said the Russian military believes that when the US goes to war with Iran, it may deploy forces in friendly Georgia and warships in the Caspian Sea with the possible help of...
Thousands protest in Russia against Immigration
Held back: A police barrier stops the chanting 5,000-strong mob of mostly young men from going any further
Thousands of far-right nationalists marched in Moscow today in a ‘Take Back Russia’ protest at Muslim migrants.
Resentment is growing over the migrants from Russia’s Caucasus and the money the Kremlin sends to those troubled regions.
Chanting ‘Russia for Russians’...
Football fans protest death of Spartak Moscow supporter
Egor Sviridov
28 years old Spartak Moscow fan Egor Sviridov has been killed on 6th of December in Moscow. He has been shot in a fight with 8 members of ethnic gang of Muslims from Caucasus (Dagestanis and Chechens). He and other 4 lads stood in Kronshtadsky parkway waiting for taxi.
A group of Caucasian youth passed and started to insult Russians, as fight has begun they used firearms. Egor has been...
"A Caucasus without Russians Means a Russia without the Caucasus" Moscow Commentator Says
Unless something is done to reverse the flight of ethnic Russians from the republics of the North Caucasus, a commentator in one Moscow newspaper says, that region will ultimately be lost to Russia because “a Caucasus without ethnic Russians can mean only one thing: a Russia without the Caucasus.”
In Friday’s “Segodnya,” Aleksey Sidorenko argues that Russian outmigration from the region...
Attacks in southern Russia kill 2 police, wound 5
Relatives mourn Gusalov Alan, 42, killed in a suicide car attack.
Several attacks in Russia’s volatile North Caucasus region have left two police officers dead and another five wounded, officials said Saturday.
The ministry’s branch in the Caspian Sea province of Dagestan says one officer was gunned down late Friday on the outskirts of the regional capital, Makhachkala.
Another policeman...
Israel prepares to attack Iran from Caucasus and Saudi Arabia
Israeli Attack from Caucasus
Israel is massing warplanes in the Caucasus for an attack on Iran, it was revealed yesterday.
Preparations are underway to launch the military attack from Azerbaijan and Georgia, reports our sister paper Akhbar Al Khaleej, quoting military sources.
Israel was, in fact, training pilots in Turkey to launch the strike and was smuggling planes into Georgia using Turkish airspace,...