Issues

Armenian businesses protest tax hike on soda beverages

March 12, 2019

Protestors stood outside the Armenian government building in Yerevan claiming that the tax would destroy their businesses and leave people without jobs

Education in Georgia in numbers – the latest data from GeoStat

March 11, 2019

Most students, professors and doctoral students are women

Azerbaijani officials against divorce float ‘compatibility checks’ before marriage

March 11, 2019

The Family Affairs Committee says psychological incompatibility is at fault for divorce rates in the country

Cigarette prices to skyrocket in Armenia

March 09, 2019

The Armenian minister of health says a 45 per cent price hike in cigarettes will prevent 88,000 early deaths

Baku police disperse feminist rally on International Women’s Day

March 08, 2019

A number of demonstrators have been detained

Most passengers from Georgian airports fly to Russia

March 08, 2019

passenger traffic at Georgian airports increased by 23 per cent in 2018 compared to the previous year

Armenia to allow draft-dodgers to avoid prosecution by paying a fine

March 07, 2019

The bill aims to allow young Armenian men who are 27 or older to return home without facing criminal prosecution

New homes being built for Azerbaijan earthquake victims

March 07, 2019

The foundation of a multistory building has already been laid in Shamakhi

More than a dozen participants in deadly Ganja protest sentenced to five years in prison

March 06, 2019

The details surrounding their involvement in the protest remain unknown

Former head of Georgia’s biggest bank says he was threatened by country’s interior minister

March 04, 2019

TBC Bank founder Mamuka Khazaradze says that the prosecutor’s office was aware of the threats but did not react

Armenian Prime Minister, Azerbaijani President agree to meet

March 03, 2019

The date of the meeting has not yet been announced. What do experts have to say?

Russia extradites Talysh rights activist to Baku

March 02, 2019

Prior to being arrested, Abbasov lived for 25 years in Russia in self-imposed exile

Dagestani fighter lashes out at Moscow theatre for ‘immoral play’

March 01, 2019

Dagestani mixed martial artist Khabib Nurmagomedov has demanded that the organizers of the "immoral performance" be punished and that they "apologize to the people"

Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili stirs the pot in Baku on first regional visit

February 28, 2019

“We are both going through what it means to have our country’s territories occupied”

Georgian MP: Georgians in Azerbaijan must have the same rights as Azerbaijanis in Georgia

February 27, 2019

"You're competing with Aliyev and carrying out a segregation policy against citizens of Georgia" – the reactions of human rights advocates to MPs' racial statements

Armenian gov’t to financially support five parties and political blocs

February 26, 2019

Parties and blocs that received at least 3% of the vote in the country’s recent parliamentary elections will be eligible to receive government funding, irrespective of whether they made it into parliament or not

Pew RC: Armenia, Georgia most religious countries in Europe

February 25, 2019

The Pew RC study was conducted in 34 countries

French mountaineer dies in Armenia avalanche

February 23, 2019

The four others who accompanied him were uninjured

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