Theres some really good articles on the BBC news website about the Caucasus. Really interesting as I knew nothing about the area, only the war in Chechnya. In a strange way its making me wanna go there a bit, even if it isnt particularly safe at the moment - although some claim otherwise:
Quote:
"Chechnya's the safest place in the world," Chechen Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov had boasted.
You wouldn't think so, seeing all the checkpoints in Grozny and the number of people with guns out on the streets.
"My city's perfectly calm," the mayor of Makhachkala had told me. "People relax and enjoy themselves, they go out for walks." But coming from a man who's survived 15 assassination attempts and is paralysed from the waist down, it wasn't very convincing."
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Its articles from a journalist who has travelled throught the whole region. The first article is
here
the other articles are the links on the left hand side under "caucasus journey"