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Diego Benning Wang reviews "Bride and Groom" by Alisa Ganieva - a book about marriage, corruption, radicalism, and constrained freedom in urban Dagestan.

Diego Benning Wang examines how, despite the absence of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia from the 2026 FIFA World Cup, clubs and players connected to the Caucasus give the region a modest but [...]

Maya Ivanova reviews “The Mountain and the Wall”, a novel that imagines what would happen if Russia sealed off its Muslim-majority Caucasian provinces with a wall.

Harold Chambers tells the tale of how Dagestan's most famous sportsman became ensnared in regional politics just after announcing his retirement.

Since the early 1990s, an interesting phenomenon has emerged in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus – some states that, despite having their own government and state apparatus, lack [...]

– Murder of Ingush anti-extremism official. On November 2nd, the head of the Ingush anti-extremism agency, Ibragim Eldzherkiev, was shot dead in Moscow along with his brother, Akhmed [...]

– Several infrastructure projects are in realisation to connect Dagestan with the broader region. On the 1st of October, the Head of the Republic mentioned ata meeting of the Valdai Club [...]