After the war, during the Soviet era, speaking Tver Karelian became a source of embarrassment - it was associated with rural ...

More than 300 million people in Iran and beyond celebrate the ancient holiday. It’s tied to the spring equinox and has roots in the Persian Empire. Here’s what to know.

There's a skydiving center, Lodi Parachute Center, located in California, where 28 people have died since 1985. And the owner says he doesn't keep track of the number of deaths.

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

By David L. Phillips The government of Azerbaijan heralds a peace agreement normalizing relations with Armenia. But the deal ...

The hard truth is that the Caucasus doesn’t reward rigid alliances. As Azerbaijan’s spat with Russia shows, even close ...

The rival South Caucasus neighbors Armenia and Azerbaijan look set to finalize a historic peace deal after agreeing on the final text of a treaty that would end more than three decades of hostilities.

People on the streets of Yerevan and Baku, the capitals of Armenia and Azerbaijan, reacted to news that the text of a peace ...

He grew up in the ’90s in a home surrounded by horse paddocks when the population was about 10,000 people. In those days, driving up out of the Sunbury valley during spring, he would see ...

Police said Maldonado, who was masked, smashed the window of a parked car while two people were in the backseat. After the suspect entered the car, one of the people in the backseat managed to get ...

The former partner of the founder of the ruling Georgian Dream party Bidzina Ivanishvili, Giorgi Bachiashvili, left Georgia in a special hiding place in a car. He left for Armenia on a Russian ...

To write a coherent account of the peoples of the Caucasus in 500 pages, even for an author with fluent Russian, is probably impossible. This is especially so when focusing on the Circassians and ...