The villages have been scorched into a wasteland of burned houses and deserted lanes. Nervous Russian soldiers patrol the empty streets, wondering whether the heavily armed residents will open fire.

According to the last Soviet census -- conducted in 1989 -- there were 392,000 ethnic Russians in Azerbaijan and 52,000 in Armenia. Today, the number of ethnic Russians in those countries reportedly ...

The Boston Marathon bombing this month sent people scrambling for maps and encyclopedias after it was revealed that the suspects, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, were ethnic Chechens with ties to ...

A group of scientists from the I nstitute of Archaeology RAS, NRC "Kurchatov Institute" and other scientific organizations for the first time have carried out a genetic analysis of the remains from ...

Global Voices stands out as one of the earliest and strongest examples of how media committed to building community and defending human rights can positively influence how people experience events ...

Back home, their differences may run strong, but within Turkey, ethnic groups from the Caucasus often find that they have more in common than conflict. In Inegol, a town of about 151,000 near the Sea ...

After more than half the population of an ethnic Armenian enclave fled their homes in a mountainous pocket of land south of Russia, the breakaway republic’s leaders said it would soon “cease to exist.

On February 28, Daghestan's parliament adopted in the final reading a draft law approving a new Complex Program for the Development of Nationality Relations for the period 2007-2010, riadagestan.ru ...

Madrasah students studying in Khasavyurt, Daghestan (RFE/RL) Sergei Markedonov, the head of the interethnic relations department at Moscow's Institute of Political and Military Analysis, says ethnic ...

In this edition of Paris Perspective, we look at the recent conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, the ethnic cleansing of the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave and France's influence in the Caucasus. At the ...