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Since the demise of the Soviet Union, it says, “some countries in Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Transcaucasia have become forward positions for the West to contain and meddle in Russia.”

DAGHESTAN, a province of Russia, Transcaucasia, occupying the triangular space between the Andi ridge, the south-east division of the main Caucasus range, and the Caspian Sea.

There are in Transcaucasia agricultural settlements established by W�rtemberg farmers, whose descendants in the third generation live in their own villages and still speak their native language.

GEORGIA, a former kingdom of Transcaucasia, which existed historically for more than 2000 years.

GELATI, a Georgian monastery in Russian Transcaucasia, in the government of Kutais, 11 m.