Alican, a businessman, was not so interested in wild talk of leading the Caucasus.
One of the many faultlines that runs through the Caucasus is a geopolitical one.
Many refugees from the Caucasus conflict received passports or refugee status in surrounding countries.
The Borjumi-Kharagauli has some of the best preserved woodlands in the Caucasus Mountains.
Observers say hijackings are a relatively frequent occurrence in the Caucasus region and Russia.
Reconciliation between Turkey and Armenia could tilt the balance of power in the Caucasus.
Mr Yepishin is not the first person to fall into modern-day slavery in the Caucasus.
Azerbaijan is part of the Caucasus, yet its people are Muslim, like those in Central Asia.
The ex-Soviet Caucasus countries, at a crossroads of Europe and Asia, are really a patch apart.
But the United States does not want to get directly involved in the Caucasus.
Russian authorities, especially in Moscow, regularly throw out traders from Georgia and elsewhere in the Caucasus.
The Republic of Karachay-Cherkessia lies in the northwest of Russia's troubled North Caucasus region.
The highest peak in the Caucasus, Mount Elbrus, lies on the border with Kabardino-Balkaria.
In the Caucasus, Azerbaijan has succeeded where Tatarstan failed, in dropping the cyrillic alphabet.
Like acrobats in a human pyramid, the Caucasus countries are inevitably affected by their neighbours' behaviour.
Third, the prospect of the fighting spreading to other parts of the combustible Caucasus is growing.
Russia said Mr Fogle was caught while trying to recruit an FSB counter-terrorism agent in the Caucasus.
Mr Medvedev's recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia may also have unpredictable consequences for Russia's north Caucasus.
Mr Varshalomidze bears little resemblance to the grizzly strongmen who have usually run mini-fiefs in the Caucasus.
And even if Russia were run by enlightened and honest reformers, the Caucasus would be a worry.
Farther down the mountain, at Barisakho, stands a warning to grandiose plans in the forbidding Caucasus terrain.
Big-power interests seem certain to ensure that regional rivalries will continue to fester in the combustible Caucasus.
Kabardino-Balkaria is home to the two highest peaks in the North Caucasus, Mount Elbrus and Dykh Tau.
Turkey's ethnic and religious ties with its Azeri cousins have long weighed heavily in its Caucasus policy.
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Some native American tribes also have monotheistic religions, as do many people in the Caucasus and Australia.
Among the few places in the Soviet Union where Islam remained fairly strong was the northern Caucasus.
Broadcast networks and many newspapers had little time or space for covering a gripping tale in the Caucasus.
From the southern edge of the Caucasus mountains to the Black Sea, Georgia's landscape is spectacular and rugged.
But even as the world's attention is fixed on Georgia, Russian citizens keep dying in the north Caucasus.
Speaking in Armenia, she warned that the clashes "could escalate into a much broader conflict" in the Caucasus.
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