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Georgia

BBC finds Georgian authorities may have used WWI-era chemicals against protesters

Georgia

December 01, 2025

“It felt like the water was burning,” bbc quotes one protester hit by a water cannon

Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan: Detained journalists report physical abuse

Azerbaijan

December 01, 2025

They claim that the head of the convoy at the Baku Court of Appeals pushed and kicked journalists while escorting them to the courtroom or back to the holding cells.

Azerbaijan

Interrogations in Azerbaijan: experts warn of government plan to crash opposition

Azerbaijan

December 01, 2025

Pro-government media link the arrest of the PFA chairman to the Ramiz Mehtiyev case

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Azerbaijan-Armenia-Georgia

December 01, 2025

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Georgian citizens will no longer be able to obtain Polish work visas through simplified process

Georgia

November 28, 2025

The decision is partly linked to the political situation in Georgia

Transparency International: up to 400 cases of pressure on journalists recorded in Georgia over one year

Georgia

November 28, 2025

The organisation estimates that the year since the protests began has been especially difficult for the media.

HRW: 'Azerbaijan steps up campaign targeting critics abroad'

Opposition in Azerbaijan

November 28, 2025

HRW notes that those targeted are being punished for criticizing human rights violations by the authorities, and there is no evidence linking them to any illegal activity.

Georgia detains two Russian activists in criminal case

Georgia

November 28, 2025

Vladimir Dubovsky and Alina Savelyeva are accused of illegally crossing the border.

One year on: What changed in Georgia since start of pro-EU protests?

Georgia

November 28, 2025

Repressive laws, arrests of protesters and opposition, pressure on media

Armenian Church faces rift as several priests condemn Catholicos’s stance

Armenia

November 27, 2025

Clergymen, having verified the authenticity of intimate videos involving Archbishop Arshak Khachatryan, said: “Garegin II is trying at all costs to conceal the sacrilege, becoming its protector”

Abkhazia’s president defends opposition figures

Abkhaz leader stands up for opposition figures facing Russian criminal case

Abkhazia-Russia

November 27, 2025

Badra Gunba stated that “no citizen of Abkhazia will ever be handed over to a foreign state”

Opinion: campaign against independent media in Georgia signals preparation for worst-case scenario

Georgia

November 26, 2025

Journalist Lasha Tugushi: “Authorities’ statements on media use 1937-era terminology”

Georgian PM: Tbilisi won’t walk away from UAE-backed Eagle Hills investment project

Georgia

November 26, 2025

Prime minister on controversial Georgian project: “This will generate enormous profit”

Georgia’s ‘mad printer’: twelve months of laws restricting civil freedoms

Georgia

November 26, 2025

Georgia has outpaced Russia in radicalization, a process that took several years there

'Suspend service': Appeal to Catholicos of All Armenians over intimate video allegedly involving archbishop

Armenia

November 25, 2025

Members of the spiritual commission made this proposal. Their letter to the Patriarch of the Armenian Apostolic Church leaked to the press. Here are all the details of the scandal.

Georgian Dream attacks online media and threatens criminal cases

Georgia

November 25, 2025

Parliamentary Speaker Papuashvili accuses media outlets of illegally receiving funds

Opinion: New law on offenders under 14 could violate children’s rights in Georgia

Georgia

November 25, 2025

Assessment by the Georgian Centre for Social Justice

600 attacks on media in Georgia in a year, Reporters Without Borders says

Georgia

November 25, 2025

“Attacks on independent journalists are part of a broader policy of repression”

Georgia to introduce Georgian-language exam for non-Georgian speakers

Georgia

November 24, 2025

According to the education minister, most countries hold exams in their official language.

Opinion: 'Georgian Dream moves closer to Russia, and more shameful episodes may follow'

Georgia-Russia

November 24, 2025

Beka Kobakhidze: “It’s similar to how the EU presented a list of recommendations to Georgia as an EU candidate. Only now, this ‘integration’ is moving in the direction of Russia.”