Cameroonian striker Samuel Eto’o caused a stir when he joined the Anzhi Makachkala football club, a small obscure outfit in the Russian Republic of Dagestan, the powder keg of the Russian North Caucasus. His salary is a whopping 20 million euros a year. But the club is not just a billionaire’s plaything - it is also a social project for developing a region which is using sport to fight terrorism.
Russian forces killed 17 people in an attack on a militant base in the Caucasus region on Monday, Russian security agencies said. At least three Russian servicemen were also killed in the operation.
After a blast tore through Moscow's busiest airport, suspicion quickly fell on terrorists operating out of the North Caucasus. What are the roots of terrorism in the region and what links these movements to and distinguishes them from other Islamist movements?
In today’s culture show, Eve Jackson talks about two very different photographers showing their work in Paris. We start with the designer Karl Largerfeld’s exhibition before meeting Thomas Dworzak to discuss his obsession with the Caucasus region.
At least sixteen people have been killed and over a hundred have been wounded after a suicide bomber blew up his car at a central market in the town of Vladikavkaz, in the Russian Caucasus. Three suspects have been arrested.
At least nine people have been killed and scores wounded after a supposed suicide bomber blew up his car at the main entrance to a central market in the Russian Caucasus city of Vladikavkaz.
An explosion in a cafe in Russia's North Caucasus city of Pyatigorsk wounded dozens of people on Tuesday, just hours after a suicide bomber killed a policeman at a checkpoint in North Ossetia.
Russian special forces foiled an attempted hijacking of a plane on Thursday coming from Mineralnye Vody in the Caucasus to Moscow's Domodedovo airport, Russian news agencies said.
Police say assailants launched a 'terrorist attack' on a hydroelectric plant in southern Russia's troubled Caucasus region, killing two people. There have been no immediate claims of responsibility for the attack.
A suicide bomber killed two police officers and blew himself up near police headquarters in the town of Karabulak, in Russia's North Caucasus region of Ingushetia. It follows recent suicide attacks in Moscow and the Dagestan region of the Caucasus.
