Monthly Archives: April 2014

MIKHEIL SAAKASHVILI KEYNOTE

On February 14, 2014, The Jamestown Foundation held a conference on Russia and the North Caucasus After the Sochi Olympics in the Root Room at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The conference featured keynote speaker Mikheil Saakashvili, the former President of the Republic of Georgia. Speakers at the conference focused their discussion on the impact of the Sochi Olympics on the future of Russia and on the North Caucasus as well as the radicalization of jihadists in the North

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SOCHI OLYMPIC LARGESSE BARELY TOUCHES NEARBY CIRCASSIAN VILLAGES

Take a drive north of Sochi into the hills and it won’t take long to escape the Olympic bubble. Gone is the new highway. The slick railway ends. The road turns to gravel, then mud, where cows roam free with passing cars. The spending spree didn’t spread its wealth as far as the neighbouring Circassian villages of Bolshoy Kishmai and Mali Kishmai. Some still hope it will, while others are resigned and say it will never happen. Continue reading →