Explainers

Armenia elections boost hopes for peace with Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan-Armenia

December 14, 2018

With his party’s victory in the snap parliamentary elections and a new calm on the frontlines with Azerbaijan, Armenia’s leader Nikol Pashinyan and his team will have more space to settle the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

Abkhaz tangerines fighting for their rightful place on the Russian market

December 14, 2018

Why tangerines from China and other countries are sold in Russia under the Abkhaz name

Georgian activist from Akhalgori receives award for defending human rights

December 14, 2018

Activists from the Pankisi and Kvemo Kartli regions also received awards

ECHR finds in favor of 11 Azerbaijani citizens prohibited from leaving the country

December 14, 2018

The government must pay them six thousand euros in compensation

Vehicles parked illegally in Baku will no longer be towed, fines to be halved

December 13, 2018

A new system of fines has been developed

Azerbaijani social media topic of the week: does a woman need an education?

December 12, 2018

There are twice as many male university students as there are female

Iran advises citizens to refrain from traveling to Georgia

December 12, 2018

Tehran is displeased with the "inappropriate treatment of Iranian tourists" on the Georgian border

Foreigners will no longer be able to buy land in Georgia after 16 December – what does the new law say

December 12, 2018

Right-wing groups protest the sale of land to foreigners

Police halt rally of family members of dead soldiers in Baku, one arrested

December 12, 2018

Demonstrations demanding compensation for soldier deaths have been on-going for two months, but this is the first time an arrest has been made

Russian serviceman on military base in Armenia suspected of murdering local woman

December 12, 2018

Local observers say that such incidents will not affect the presence of Russia’s military bases in Armenia

All political contenders in Armenia accept snap election results

December 11, 2018

International observers have also said that the elections were free and fair and that voters went to the polls with confidence

What does the Georgian state budget look like for 2019?

December 11, 2018

How much will the state budget be in 2019 and what will it be spent on?

Price of bread spikes in Georgia

December 10, 2018

Manufacturers do not exclude the possibility that the price might increase even further

Azerbaijani gov’t to strictly regulate graveyards

December 10, 2018

Standards and rules for gravestones and the depth of graves have been established, while fencing off grave sites will be prohibited

Armenian revolutionary leader's bloc scores big win in parliamentary elections

December 09, 2018

Turnout was strangely low despite the fervor of excitement in the run up to the elections

Former president of Armenia placed under arrest again

December 08, 2018

Kocharyan handed himself over to the National Security Service instead of waiting for investigators to come to his residence to announce the court verdict

Russia weighs in on Georgia's presidential elections

December 08, 2018

The Russian Foreign Ministry and pro-governmental media are optimistic, but the independent media and netizens do not agree with them

Azerbaijani social media in uproar over case of husband who shaved wife’s head "for cheating"

December 07, 2018

Some blame the husband for the act, while others ask why the wife stayed with her husband

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