What's missing here is of course history, natural resources, political alignments and revolutions, wars and conflicts, earthquakes (yes!), societal organizations and power hierarchies, migrations and diasporic groups (mass persecutions), planned oilpipes- and so on (victims and killers included).
[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14681526
"A Chechen man has been arrested in Moscow over the murder of Yuri Budanov, the former Russian colonel jailed for a notorious murder in Chechnya", 26 August 2011]
from a comment to 'First battle of Grozny, 1995; battle of Vukovar, 1991/ Prima battaglia di Grozny, 1995; battaglia di Vukovar, 1991':
RispondiElimina"some images can lie: see 'Caucasus; just one (ethnolinguistic) map';
other images are maledictory, they must be cancelled, foreclosed, forgotten- so that our eternal present may keep its bearings, its soft and mature smile." gc