As the Winter Olympics get under way, all eyes are on the athletes, their coaches, and the destination: subtropical Sochi, the Black Sea resort town nestled below the westernmost slopes of Russia's ...
OF the several branches of the Russian Geographical Society, the Caucasian and the East Siberian are well known for the amount of valuable geographical work they have done during the thirty years or ...
In the 10th century, an Arab geographer described the Caucasus region as a "mountain of tongues." The nickname has stuck to this day, likely because of how well it captures two of the area's main ...
A New York Times article about the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi Russia and its proximity to a war zone, includes a map showing the spread of rebel attacks in the North Caucasus. The dynamic map was ...
In the negotiations between Yerevan and Baku, the European Union and Turkey enter the scene. Confidence in Russia's mediation is waning, weakened by the Ukrainian conflict. The problem of Karabakh and ...
A RECENT volume of the Memoirs (Zapiski) of the Caucasian Branch of the Russian Geographical Society (vol. xv.) is of more than usual interest. It opens with a paper, by Mr. Konshin, on the old beds ...
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