Synonyms for caucasus
ˈkɔ kə səscau·ca·sus

Princeton's WordNet

1. Caucasus, Caucasus Mountainsnoun

   the mountain range in Caucasia between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea that forms part of the traditional border between Europe and Asia

2. Caucasia, Caucasusnoun

   a large region between the Black and Caspian seas that contains the Caucasus Mountains; oil is its major resource

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1. List of paraphrases for "caucasus":

   caucasian, caucusus, caucuses, caucasia, transcaucasia, transcaucasus

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1. Matthew Bryza:

   Russia’s goal in its lone mediation mission appears to be twofold: firstly, to repair its international reputation in relation to its debacle in Ukraine, and secondly to strengthen the impression in Armenia and Azerbaijan that Russia calls the shots in the South Caucasus, the fact that the U.S. administration is so absent and timid in its response has the impact of ceding the strategic field in the South Caucasus to Russia. This can have profound and dangerous consequences in Syria, Ukraine, and far beyond.

2. Chris Smith:

   His condition has not improved since ; he has not regained consciousness, his wife, Yevgenia, said in an e-mail to RFE/RL and other media outlets. Kara-Murza’s father, a prominent journalist, told Russian media Thursday that the situation appears to be more serious than we thought. His lungs are being artificially ventilated, he is connected to 10 devices. Related ImageExpand / ContractKara-Murza,( l.), is an outspoken critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, as was his ally, Boris Nemtsov,( r.). , who was gunned down near the Kremlin in February. ( Reuters) Kara-Murza's father is a journalist with RFE/RL’s Russian Service. The activist's family was stopped short of raising public questions about whether foul play was involved. There is no criminal case so far, none has been opened because he is simply a normal patient who arrived at a Moscow hospital by ambulance. That’s his status, nothing more, his father told a radio station. Our task right now is to bring him to a normal trajectory of recuperation. We ’ll establish the cause [ of the illness ] later. Open Russia was founded by Mikhail Khodorkovsky, an oil oligarch and Kremlin opponent who lives in Switzerland after Mikhail Khodorkovsky was pardoned by Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2013 following 10 years in prison. Open Russia's new documentary accuses Kadyrov, a former rebel fighter who joined forces with the Kremlin in 2000, of participating in murders and torture in the North Caucasus republic. Related ImageExpand / ContractChechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was accused of torture and murder in the new documentary. ( Reuters) Both the Kremlin and Kadyrov have denied involvement in the killing of Boris Nemtsov, although Kadyrov praised the main suspect in the case, a former Chechen police officer, as a.

3. President Tayyip Erdogan:

   There are people from Dagestan, from Kyrgyzstan, from Tajikistan, unfortunately, people from neighboring northern Caucasus countries are involved in this business.

4. Robert Spengler:

   Some of them may have been rapidly domesticated by humans simply moving them or transporting them [along trade routes such as the silk road] from the Caucasus all the way to East Asia, so, its possible that humans were stillinflicting evolutionary changeson these plants without actually intensively cultivating them.

5. Vladimir Putin:

   They immediately tried to put the final squeeze on us, finish us off, and utterly destroy us. This is how it was in the 1990s and the early 2000s, when the so-called collective West was actively supporting separatism and gangs of mercenaries in southern Russia, what victims, what losses we had to sustain and what trials we had to go through at that time before we broke the back of international terrorism in the Caucasus ! We remember this and will never forget.