Yuri Simonyan
Pankisi Supplies Conscripts to IS
Georgia’s Pankisi Gorge is once in the public eye. Another two young local Kistians – aged 16 and 18 – (Kistinians are ethnic Chechens have gone to fight in Syria. It’s been a while since the boys disappeared and searches, as it happens, brought no results. One of them later...
Russia and Abkhazia Open New Page in their Relations
In Sochi, on 24 November the presidents of the Russian Federation and Abkhazia Vladimir Putin and Raul Khajimba signed a Treaty between the Russian Federation and Abkhazia on Alliance and Integration. This document was the result of...
Georgian Muslims Talk About Rights Violations
Another ethnic clash took place in the Kakheti region in Georgia. The cause of the conflict is quite common, but the two parties involved are Georgians and Kists, ethnic Chechens living in the notorious Pankisi Gorge. In terms of religion, they are...
