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How political protest in Azerbaijan has changed: a history of repression

Azerbaijan

August 29, 2025

The last rally in the country took place in January 2019. Since then, not a single large-scale protest has been held

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Azerbaijan-Armenia-Georgia

August 29, 2025

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Armenia

“Armenia is now in its least vulnerable position” – key points from Pashinyan’s briefing

Armenia

August 28, 2025

Armenia’s prime minister has introduced a new format of communication with journalists — weekly 60-minute briefings, answering questions on both domestic and foreign policy

Georgia

“This shows rising Russian-style repression” — Georgian NGO on its frozen accounts

Georgia

August 28, 2025

Women’s rights group Sapari says it will continue its work and its fight for justice

Opinion: “Can the initialled peace deal be seen as a new stage of the Karabakh conflict?”

Nikol Pashinyan

August 28, 2025

What led the sides to this agreement, what changes opened the way to compromise, and how might differences in the leaders’ approaches affect the durability of peace?

“Trump Route” will create conditions for new investment in Armenia – economist

Azerbaijan-Armenia

August 28, 2025

According to Armen Ktoyan, Armenia’s investment climate has never been particularly favourable, but new factors have emerged to help shape it — the most important being the TRIPP project

Ilham Aliyev in Al Arabiya interview: “Azerbaijan is shaping a new political reality in the Caucasus”

Azerbaijan

August 28, 2025

Aliyev spoke of Russia in the harshest terms and presented the ratification in Washington of the peace deal with Armenia as “the end of more than 30 years of conflict.”

Opinion: "Full-scale repression has begun in Georgia"

Georgia

August 27, 2025

15–20 years in prison - constitutional lawyer Vakhtang Menabde comments on the charges against seven NGOs whose accounts have already been frozen

Abkhazian mother of five jailed in Russia for welfare fraud

Abkhazia

August 27, 2025

Several hundred other Abkhazian women face the same threat

Council of Europe expert committee: “It would be advisable to repeal Georgia’s FARA law”

FARA in Georgia

August 27, 2025

Experts say the law will cause serious and unjustified harm to civil society

“They financed violence at protests”: court freezes accounts of several NGOs in Georgia

FARA in Georgia

August 27, 2025

According to prosecutors, these NGOs had “equipped” participants in the protests and encouraged them to commit acts of violence

More detainees than convicts in Armenia’s prisons: what’s behind it?

Armenia

August 27, 2025

Since 2021, the country’s legislation has allowed the use of alternative preventive measures, but the courts continue to ignore them. Clarifications from human rights defender Zaruhi Hovhannisyan.

“We, Georgian non-governmental organisations, consider it unacceptable to give up our European future.”

NGO: Georgian government responsible for possible suspension of EU visa-free regime

Georgian Dream

August 27, 2025

“We, Georgian non-governmental organisations, consider it unacceptable to give up our European future.”

Opposition leader criticises Azerbaijan’s ‘reconciliation’ with Russia

Azerbaijan

August 27, 2025

“The old ‘allies’ have agreed to strengthen ties and cooperation as though nothing ever happened.”

Amnesty International appealed to Georgia’s prosecutor general over prisoners of conscience

Georgia - EU

August 26, 2025

“The evidence presented against those arrested during the pro-European protests is insufficient"

Streets named after dead invaders

Russia

August 26, 2025

Russian cities see growing number of streets named after participants in the “special military operation”

“Armenia without Russian boots”: calls grow for withdrawal of Russian military base

Armenia-Russia

August 26, 2025

On the protests in Gyumri, where the base is located; how it was established in Armenia; the crimes committed by its servicemen; and how the question of its withdrawal could be resolved under the agreement

Fire in Baku malls: crackdown on local brands or “toxic toys”?

Azerbaijan

August 25, 2025

The Sədərək fire raised two questions: why small businesses keep suffering, and whether there is any quality control of toys

Anri Okhanashvili steps down as head of Georgia’s security service

Georgia

August 23, 2025

Anri Okhanashvili will be replaced by Mamuka Mdinaradze, leader of the ruling Georgian Dream parliamentary majority

North Ossetia. "Village boys sent to the front as rural anger grows"

Russia

August 23, 2025

In North Ossetia, a Russian republic in the North Caucasus, protests over utility bills masked a deeper cause of public anger.

Pashinyan-Pezeshkian meeting: what does Iran expect from opening transport routes in the Caucasus?

Armenia

August 22, 2025

Although Pashinyan is trying to convince Tehran that the so-called “Trump Route” could work to its advantage, analysts expect Iran will only soften its stance if concrete guarantees are provided

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