The suicide bombing at the checkpoint occurred in North Ossetia, a mostly Orthodox Christian region of the North Caucasus, where violence in recent years has been rare. a man in his 20s set off a suicide belt when he was stopped by police at a checkpoint close to the border with Ingushetia, a volati
The Fergana Valley, where most of the killing happened, was divided arbitrarily by Stalin in the 1920s among Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. As a result, the Kyrgyz Soviet republic was left with a sizeable Uzbek population, the Uzbek Soviet republic with a Tajik population, and so on.
The Kremlin has, so far, rejected an appeal by Kyrgyzstan’s interim Government to send troops to the southern regions of Osh and Jalalabad, where more than 100 people have died and up to 1,400 have been wounded in three days of clashes between Kyrgyz and ethnic Uzbek groups. However, the size of t
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Israeli police have arrested a former mayor of Jerusalem for questioning in a multimillion-dollar bribery scandal that has been linked to a key confidant of former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert