The highest peak in the Caucasus, Mount Elbrus, lies on the border with Kabardino-Balkaria.
BBC: Karachay-Cherkessia profile
Kabardino-Balkaria is home to the two highest peaks in the North Caucasus, Mount Elbrus and Dykh Tau.
BBC: Kabardino-Balkaria profile
Kabardino-Balkaria now looks as brittle and unstable as Ingushetia and Dagestan, Chechnya's other neighbours, where shoot-outs and killings abound.
ECONOMIST: Caucasian dominoes | The
The tactics used in Chechnya, and then in nearby Ingushetia, have been applied in Kabardino-Balkaria too, with predictable, alienating results.
Mr Putin last month replaced Kabardino-Balkaria's veteran ruler with a businessman perhaps on the dubious principle that already-rich people find it easier to resist corruption.
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