The haplogroups R1a and R1b is usually associated with the Indo-European migrations and were described at the Scythes and Sarmatians. Nowadays these haplogroups together with the haplogroup E1a2a have ...

Once seen as emissaries of the dominant power, Russians in the South Caucasus now share equal status with dozens of other minority groups that have traditionally populated this mountainous area.

On February 28, Daghestan's parliament adopted in the final reading a draft law approving a new Complex Program for the Development of Nationality Relations for the period 2007-2010, riadagestan ...

BAD NEIGHBORS. Russia’s fraught relationship with the minority peoples of the North Caucasus dates back hundreds of years. The Russian empire’s final conquest of the region in 1864 was marked by the ...

According to the last Soviet census -- conducted in 1989 -- there were 392,000 ethnic Russians in Azerbaijan and 52,000 in Armenia. Today, the number of ethnic Russians in those countries reportedly ...

With a population of about 3 million people, Dagestan — bordering Chechnya, with the Caspian Sea to the east and Georgia and Azerbaijan to the south — is comprised of more then 40 ethnic groups.