In some regions of the world, such as the Caucasus and Bulgaria, populations boast extraordinary longevity. One of the ...

Wait, do white people really come from the Caucasus? It’s highly unlikely. There are scholarly disagreements about how and when some of our dark-skinned ancestors developed lighter skin, ...

The Caucasus and Let Our Fame Be Great are timely books, given that the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi will take place on Caucasian turf: the site of the last Russian-Circassian battleground, and near ...

Azerbaijan’s response to a Russian raid that victimised its citizens signals a regional revolt against Kremlin control.

Croatia, France, Germany, Poland and Romania have or have attempted to extradite or deport asylum seekers who had fled persecution in the North Caucasus People returned potentially forced to fight in ...

At the heart of this discovery was the Caucasus-Lower Volga (CLV) population, ... The Yamnaya people, originating around 5500 years ago in present-day Ukraine, ...

While Chechnya emerges from a decade of conflict, Maria Turchenkova photographs the hidden guerrilla war in the republic of Dagestan – the largest, most heterogeneous and, today, the most ...

Research conducted in 2016 by Pink Armenia and think-tank the Caucasus Research Resource Center showed that 89% of Armenia's population think homosexuals should not be allowed to work with children.

As the global LGBT community marks Pride Month, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people face growing, state-sanctioned homophobia and violence in Russia, activists say. In its World Report ...

Why that is, has remained a question in many people's minds. This list aims to answer that question by compiling five reasons why fighters from the Caucasus are dominating in the UFC.