That's nice. I wish President Putin could instruct the American corporate media to tone down their anti-caucasian feeling....
You're likely using it as pun. But just so there's no misunderstanding Putin is referring to this:
The Ethnic and the Social Structure of the Caucasus
Ufuk TAVKUL, Ph.D.
Resume:
Caucasus is the general name of the high mountain range which lies between the Blacksea and the Caspian sea, and the countries of Abkhazia, Adigey, Kabardin, Karachay-Balkaria, Ossetia, Chechen-Ingushetia and Dagestan. Caucasus has been subjected to migration and invasion movements of several tribes and peoples who came from the steppes of Central Asia and South Russia, or Greek-Roman-Byzantine-Genoese trade colonists who travelled from the west by the Black Sea and some tribes who migrated from the south of the Caucasus. All ethnic and socio-cultural elements which have been left by those tribes have reached to our time. Proto-Turk and Turk tribes who came down from the north, like Kimmer, Scythian, Hunno-Bulgar, Alan, Khazar and Kipchak have been effectual on ethnic and socio-cultural structure of Caucasus, as well as Greek-Roman-Byzantine civilizations. All those elements that originated from outside of the Caucasus mixed with ethnic and cultural elements of the native tribes thus a new socio-cultural pattern has been accomplished. Amalgamation of different ethnic groups played a great role in this phenomenon. Individuals or families who passed into an other ethnic group and assimilated in this new ethnic group brought their own cultural elements together. By admission of those new cultural elements, Caucasian peoples accomplished similar structures while they were being mixed with each other ethnically. The conflict and relation between the nomadic steppe culture of the tribes originating from the north and the settled culture of Caucasians have created social division of labor. As a result of this process private property system occured initiating the process of social stratification among the peoples of the Caucasus. After the fall of Golden Horde empire in 14th century, the first feudal relations occured among the peoples of the Caucasus. Feudal system and social stratification was established among Kabardians in complete form and spreaded out among some Adige tribes and Karachay-Balkarians who were under influence of Kabardians. Feudal system was at its complete level in 19th century but it couldn’t live its natural development and it came to an end after Russia has conquered the Caucasus in 1864. It is possible to see the traces of feudal system and social stratification in customary law and family structure of Caucasian peoples. In mythological old believes of Caucasian peoples and in their old religions paganism can be seen. In old believes of Karachay-Balkarians shamanism of Turkic tribes of Central Asia call attention while in Adige and Abkhazians the influence of Greek-Roman civilization can be seen. Christianity has also been influential since 6th century among the Caucasian peoples, but it lost its effect in a time. Today Caucasian peoples have become closely related nations after a process of mixing ethnically and socio-culturally for hundreds of years. So it is not correct scientifically, to classify the Caucasian peoples according to the criteria of race and ethnic origin. Caucasian peoples can only be classified according to the language groups.
http://caucasus.8k.com/index-eng.htm