One road in Sochi costs $7.8 billion due to corruption

Sochi: the capital of a lost people

The passage from the laid-back atmosphere in Abkhazia to the thriving and animate Russian district of Krasnodar is quite sudden. Even from the frontier point one can see the district is jam-packed: shops glued one to another, crammed cars in endless traffic jams and ongoing massive works on the infrastructure. As usual, the ubiquitous police forces keep a close watch over everything and anything. Hardly did we reach Adler when we saw on the left a huge billboard announcing extensive works...

2,000 Defiantly Stage Rally in Tuapse

About 2,000 residents of a small town near Sochi rallied against environmental pollution Sunday evening despite colossal efforts to prevent the gathering after a previous protest drew 4,000 and left the top local official without a job.

The protesters gathered on the periphery of the central square of Tuapse, a Black Sea town of 60,000 popular with tourists, ignoring rain and the campaign to prevent the rally, which included closing the square for construction, distributing flyers with fals...

A Call From Circassians: "Recognise Circassian Genocide"

A  Call From Circassians:  “Recognize Circassian Genocide”

Circasians who are exposed to an exile and a genocide by Tsarist Russia 146 years ago, protesting in front of the Russian Consulate, they repeated their demand: “Recognize The Circassian Genocide”

Circassians protesting The Circassian Genocide, meeting in front of The Russian Consulate, repeated their demand: “Recognize Circassian  Genocide”.

The activity which was realized with demand of Caucasus Forum “Recognize Circassian&...

Georgian Deputies Ready To Discuss Russian Killings Of Circassians

TBILISI - A group of Georgian deputies says it is ready for parliamentary discussion about the 19th-century massacres of Circassians by Tsarist Russian forces in the North Caucasus, the Caucasian Knot website reported.
Circassians at a conference in Tbilisi in March formally appealed to Georgia to condemn those killings as genocide. They also asked Georgian officials to designate the Russian city of Sochi -- the venue for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games -- as "the location and symbol of Circ...