There was at the outset a series of rebellions in Ossetia in agtitation for... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (John Rhys Burgess) http://redcatsboards.yuku.com/sreply/34787 Sat, 13 Sep 2008 13:37:15 GMT http://redcatsboards.yuku.com/reply/34783/t/Divide--Rule--Geopoltics---Caucasus---Transcaucasion-Federat.html#reply-34783 Following the Russian revolution of 1917, what was eventually to become the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania became the http://redcatsboards.yuku.com/sreply/34783 Sat, 13 Sep 2008 12:23:21 GMT http://redcatsboards.yuku.com/reply/34781/t/Divide--Rule--Geopoltics---Caucasus---Transcaucasion-Federat.html#reply-34781 Though rich in oil and natural gas, the Republic of Ingushetia is one of the most economically depressed in the whole of the Russian Federation, not only because of its shared... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (John Rhys Burgess) http://redcatsboards.yuku.com/sreply/34781 Sat, 13 Sep 2008 12:16:42 GMT http://redcatsboards.yuku.com/reply/34780/t/Divide--Rule--Geopoltics---Caucasus---Transcaucasion-Federat.html#reply-34780 The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic was founded in May 1918 after the collapse of Imperial Russia and the subequent dissolution of the Transcaucasian Federation. Ganja was the provisional capital since Baku was under Bolshevik control. Although the Azeri population were mostly Moslem, there were also Armenian, Russian, ... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (John Rhys Burgess) http://redcatsboards.yuku.com/sreply/34780 Sat, 13 Sep 2008 11:53:04 GMT http://redcatsboards.yuku.com/reply/34779/t/Divide--Rule--Geopoltics---Caucasus---Transcaucasion-Federat.html#reply-34779 The first Democratic Republic of Armenia was created following the collapse of Impeial Russia and the short-lived Transcaucasian Federation with Georgia and Azerbaijan. Following the defeat of the Ottomans at the conclusion of the Great War, additional territories were ceded to Armenia following the Treaty of Batum and the provisions of the Paris Peace Conference which... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (John Rhys Burgess) http://redcatsboards.yuku.com/sreply/34779 Sat, 13 Sep 2008 11:51:02 GMT http://redcatsboards.yuku.com/reply/34778/t/Divide--Rule--Geopoltics---Caucasus---Transcaucasion-Federat.html#reply-34778 Georgia's initial period as an independent sovereign state arose following the dissolution of the short-lived Transcaucasion Federation in 1918 and lasted until its absorption into the Soviet Union in 1921. Georgian separatists however, quickly and successfully agitated for self-determination resulting in the abandonment of the... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (John Rhys Burgess) http://redcatsboards.yuku.com/sreply/34778 Sat, 13 Sep 2008 11:48:46 GMT http://redcatsboards.yuku.com/topic/26479/t/Divide--Rule--Geopoltics---Caucasus---Transcaucasion-Federat.html The only attempt at unifying the three respective principal Caucasus states of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia arose following their secession upon dissolution of Imperial Russia following the revolution in 1917 as the Transcaucasian Frederation with Tbilisi as its capital. But competing separatist nationalist groups combined with war with Turkey led to the abandonment of the federation within less than a year. After... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (John Rhys Burgess) http://redcatsboards.yuku.com/topic/26479 Sat, 13 Sep 2008 11:42:43 GMT