Between 1860 and the First World War, over a million people from the North Caucasus—Circassians, Chechens, Ossetians, Ingush, Abkhazians, and others—were violently expelled by the expanding Russian ...

Georgian officials tonight claimed the country had been 'overrun' by Russian troops after a full-scale ground invasion. Amid reports that Moscow forces had taken the town of Gori - and were ...