Aliya Ozdamirova, the daughter of a former Chechen deputy sports minister, was buried in her home republic of Chechnya on Nov ...

It's a decision marred in controversy. The biggest swimming pool in Russia's Muslim-majority North Caucasus region announced on social media on Monday (January 20) that women are banned from using the ...

Having a tattoo or an unmarried sister or an Instagram account -- all of these things can count against women seeking custody of their children in Russia’s North Caucasus region, where local court ...

The following is a version of a partner post that first appeared on the website OC Media. Queer women in Russia’s North Caucasus face attempts to ‘cure’ them, beatings, rape, forced marriages, and ...

The presence of women in parliaments across the Caucasus and Central Asia has risen in the last 25 years, albeit slowly: in most countries in the region, between 15 and 25 percent of their MPs are ...

Ianyan introduces its readers to the female athletes representing the three countries of the South Caucasus in the Olympic games in London. Global Voices stands out as one of the earliest and ...

In The Unseen Truth, Sarah Lewis examines how an erroneous 18th-century story about the “Caucasian race” led to a centuries of prejudice and misapprehension. Americans have long been invested in an ...

A survey by the Currentime website has outlined the problem in the former Soviet countries. In none of the five Central Asian countries is the concept of ‘femicide’ included in the Penal Code, despite ...

A genderless human figurine, carved 8,000 years ago, raises questions about how agriculture arrived in the South Caucasus.

In The Unseen Truth, Sarah Lewis examines how an erroneous 18th-century story about the “Caucasian race” led to a centuries of prejudice and misapprehension. Mikhail Lermontov’s Memory of Caucasus, ...