Turkey: Armenia must pull out of Nagorno-Karabakh (AP via Yahoo! News)
One day after Turkey signed a deal the U.S. helped salvage to end a century of enmity with Armenia, Turkey’s leader set a tough condition for normalizing ties on Sunday: Armenia must withdraw from the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Ingush president says warned by “lull” in Ingushetia (Russian Information Agency Novosti)
The leader of Russia’s volatile southern republic of Ingushetia said in an interview with RIA Novosti that the recent “lull” in militant activity in the republic has been alarming.
Russia May Find Itself Involved with Another War (Pravda Ru)
The unlearned lessons of the war between Russia and Georgia in August 2008 may trigger another armed conflict in the Caucasus.
South Ossetia accuses gas pipeline builders of financial fraud (Interfax)
MOSCOW. Oct 12 (Interfax) – South Ossetian prosecutors have brought criminal charges against the general contractor of the Dzuarikau- Tskhinvali gas pipeline. The firm is accused of 1.5-billion ruble fraud, South Ossetian Ambassador in Moscow Dmitry Medoyev told a Monday press conference.
Turkish premier links Armenia ties to progress on Karabakh (Russian Information Agency Novosti)
Turkey’s prime minister said Wednesday his country will be normalizing relations with Armenia in parallel with the settlement process in the disputed region of Nagorny Karabakh, Turkish NTV reported.
Eight Killed In Clashes Between Security Forces, Militants In Southern Russia (INO News)
(RTTNews) – At least eight people, including two security personnel and six militants, were killed in a military operation in Russia’s volatile southern republic of Ingushetia on Monday, according to officials and Russia media reports.
Ingush attack suspects ‘killed’ (BBC News)
Russia’s FSB says the organisers of the attempted assassination of the president of Ingushetia have been killed.
Soccer Diplomacy May Speed Turkish-Armenian Thaw: Week Ahead (Bloomberg)
Oct. 12 (Bloomberg) — Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan may not mind if Turkey’s soccer team beats Armenia this week. He has his sights set on a higher goal — ending a century-old dispute between the two neighbors.
Fears as Moscow muscles in on Crimea (MalaysiaNews.net)
Dmitry Medvedev , gave his Ukrainian counterpart, Viktor Yushchenko, an unprecedented diplomatic mugging. In a seething letter, and subsequent video message, Medvedev reprimanded Yushchenko for his “a…
Militants seized in Ingushetia’s Karabulak confess planting bomb (Interfax)
NAZRAN. Oct 8 (Interfax) – Three militants seized by the Ingush department of the Federal Security Service on Wednesday confessed their plans to bomb a Karabulak polling station before the Sunday ballot, a department source told Interfax.
