Even though Vladimir Putin’s designated successor says few senior officials even know what demography is, changes in the number of 18-year-olds over the next few years will impose severe constraints on the Russian government and may force it to reduce the size of its armed forces.

The Russian Far East is “drifting away” from the rest of the country, according to an investigation carried out by Nezavisimaya gazeta – Regiony, and the Kremlin’s much-ballyhooed program intended to reverse that process may in fact be making it worse.

Russia’s Muslims are beginning to change the way they talk about the relationship between their religious community and their country, a shift that reflects their own growing self-confidence but one that frightens many ethnic Russians who see it as a threat to their own status.

A BILLIONAIRE businessman living in Britain fears he has been targeted in an assassination plot being planned in the former Soviet republic of Georgia.

The editors of Kavkaz-Center have received the text of an official statement of the Vakil of the Vekalat of the Caucasus Emirate (the Head of the Official Representation of CE) in connection to recent events in Caucasus and information that has been published in the media.

Business tycoon Badri Patarkatsishvili said on December 27 that he would pull out from the presidential race. “Today the opposition leaders actually demanded me and

On photo: Eliminated kafirs (Russian infidels)   According to the news source from Vilayat Galgaycho (Ingushetia) of the Caucasus Emirate, several Russian kafirs have been eliminated and wounded near the village of Surhohi, Nazran district when their armored jeep got attacked.

In recent days a real panic reigns among the Chechen puppets, Kavkazan Haamash news agency’s source reported with the reference to the circle of ringleader of the Chechen murtads Ramzan Kadyrov.

Dagestan mining village Gimry (birthplace of Imam Shamil) has been under a full blockade for more than two weeks. As nobody is allowed to exit or to enter the village the information comes from there is very little.

According to sources from Turkey, more than 500 Muslim pilgrims from various Velayats (parts) of Caucasus Emirate – Nohchiycho (Chechnya), Ghalghaycho (Ingushetia) and Dagestan have accumulated in the Turkish port of Trabzon.