which is basically an extra security zone inside a abkhazia. this has been portrayed in the media inaccurately as the moving of the border of the georgian foreign ministry complained which naturally they would let this is not any territory that georgia has controlled for 20 years in soviet times and so this is just the abkhazia are being restricted. i corresponded with this and said we could make it across the border as pedestrians but we can't drive across. so you know we are not -- this is really going to be the lot down games and i think the objective clearly is there is going to be no terrorists within the greater sochi area and that no spectators are athletes suffer and maybe they will pull that off. but saying that possibly increases the risk of being in a different part of russia during the games. as for the circassian issue again i think we have to be come a think has been a bit overblown i think again the previous georgian government tried to instrumental ways the circassian and recognizing a circassian genocide but i think that was tr

they've used a buffer zone between abkhazia and georgia and pushing the cease-fire line established in 2008 seven miles further into georgia. so here we have an international peace agreement that kind of sets a line where the allowing the occupation in georgian territory of russian forces and then the russian federation decides, based upon the olympics, to push that line further into the country of georgia seven more miles. it is very troubling and troubling extension of russia's rlier efforts to close south ossetia and this new enclave is a -- it stands in stark contrast to russia's commitment under international law. according to the cease-fire signed on august 12, 2008, russian military forces were to return to their prewar positions, yet, they now established militaryized security perimeters on the georgian signed of the administrative border with both south ossetia and abkhazia. this is a violation of the european convention on human rights, to which russia is a signatory and a violation of customary international law. russian president putin claims he must close borders within th

that is a reason for the russians to regard abkhazia as a problem and a threat to these games rather than as an opportunity. a couple words about north caucusus. gordon and i would agree we have differences of perspective of problems in the north caucusus he knows the details-left over chechen war lord who didn't have to be killed when basically the chechen insurgency was finally defeated in the yearly 2,000s. he successfully read branded himself as a kind of islamist leader but it is not clear to me, they have a good web site and branding and the russian interest to kind of pay attention to the caucusus but to me looking at it from a difference, who doesn't study it day-by-day, looks like an umbrella organization in which the individual operatives have a very loose if any association, if you are pakistani islamist i think doku umarov is a leftover it chechen nationalists warlord who doesn't feel much affinity, we don't have a map here but we should also remember the north caucusus is very long, pakistan which is obviously the most hostile and dangerous part of it is a long way from

in two thousand and eight russia claimed it was protecting its this isn't an abkhazia and south accept it when it stepped into the war with georgia the russian mp is also said that if crime and professor ian joined russia the decision will be rather stumped by moscow. by a vote of one hundred and sixty nine full and one hundred and thirty nine against taylor nz won the backing of bits of the senate for the prime minister's job on monday the thirty nine year old form a matter of florence takes is the position of that period of prolonged political uncertainty. he wasted no time enhancing up the direction he wants to take the country. the noise in my view the outlook in iowa the more costly. the it city that's all i imagined and that we want to rebuild his wand that can be a will lead to. i'm not afraid to theo treat parliament's like to send him off for the purposes of entertainment. it was rather a stage to negotiate a haunt for reforms. he and i will follow. ramsey also a promise to reform the ponderous justice system invest in schools as tackle the that's another confidence but it wil

the dispute was over georgia's breakaway provinces of south ossetia and abkhazia. russian authorities recognized the two as independent states. but since last year georgian officials have been making overtures toward russia, after pro--west president saakashvili stepped in. she stressed that the sornlgian government still has sovereignty over the two prove sinces, but she said officials want to start talks with authorities in moscow. >> who believe that it's better to speak with russia and to have a dialogue, and we really had some positive results after we created the special representatives post for russian relations. >> russian president vladimir putin said he is also ready to sit down and discuss the bilateral rift. he said the olympics will provide a good opportunity to improve relations. >>> the olympics in sochi are only a few days old but the organizers of the next winter games in pyeongchang, south korea, are already busy promoting their event. 150 members of the organizing committee have headed to sochi. they set up a building to showcase their games and

the border between russia and a region called abkhazia. now, 20 years ago a war was fought there.flict there. another country, georgia, still claims that territory while russia supports what georgia describes as abkhazian separatists. basically that underscores how complicated this part of the world is, the caucasus. there have been many, many, many conflicts here over ethnic lines, over religious lines, over political lines between states and that's part of what is so unusual about putting these olympics here, this olympic park just five minutes drive away from a frozen conflict where there are more than a thousand russian peacekeepers stationed. abkhazia has been predominantly calm and stable, but again it just shows you what a complicated region these winter olympics will be held in less than 48 hours from now. >> nick paton walsh. you were just in another dangerous part of that area, dagestan. all of us remember the bombers in boston. their families came from dagestan as well. that's not all that far away. here's the question because you know this region well. let's hope this