Kavkaz News

In a hotel room in southern Russia, Lydia and Pavel Izvozchikov are praying their son will be found alive somewhere in the shallow waters at the mouth of the Black Sea.

Georgia will lift its state of emergency in two days, Parliament Speaker Nino Burjanadze said on Wednesday, but a court order looked set to keep the main opposition television station off the air.

Georgia has severely damaged its chances of winning a promise of NATO membership at a summit next April with a crackdown on protests that has shocked even its supporters in the West, diplomats said on Wednesday.

Russia may deploy its newest Iskander tactical missiles in neighboring Belarus in response to U.S. plans for a missile shield in eastern Europe, Russian media quoted a senior general as saying on Wednesday.

The recognition of Abkhazia by Russia would amount to declaration of war against Georgia and “we will accept this challenge,” an influential lawmaker Givi Targamadze, who chairs the parliament’s defense and security committee, said on November 13.

President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday he expected a parliamentary election on December 2 to give him a “moral right” to influence Russian politics after he steps down from his Kremlin post next year.

The United States on Tuesday cast doubt on Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili’s claims that Russia was involved in stirring up civil strife in the crisis-torn Caucasus nation.

В результате атаки афганского Шахида в северной афганской провинции Кундуз уничтожены два БТРа германских оккупационных войск и несколько солдат. Шахид привел в действие мощное взрывное устройство в тот момент, когда колонна оккупантов двигалась по дороге в городке Хан-Абад. Об этом заявило командование талибов.

Как сообщают оккупационные источники, в Шамилькале (бывшая Махачкала) в понедельник утром были блокированы два дома, в которых по утверждению местных муртадов, находятся моджахеды.

KC source reported that a group of Mujahideen up to 100 fighters entered village of Kurchali on the night of November 11. By blocking the main entrances to the village and setting up mobile check points, a group of Mujahideen