Opinion

Op-ed: why the idea of returning the death penalty in Russia is a sign of distrust in the gov’t

October 16, 2019

If a similar same prison term is given for a picket with posters and for murder, people will begin to support more primitive forms of justice.

Kurds enter alliance with Russia, Syrian President Assad – US to blame?

October 14, 2019

Trump's sudden decision to withdraw troops from Syria intensified Turkey's military operation and attack on the Kurds. All the details: what is happening in Syria and why America is being called a traitor

Georgians in Azerbaijan: between identity and alienation

Azerbaijan

October 10, 2019

Many Georgians in Azerbaijan look at their ethnic homeland as a place of financial and career opportunity – but many feel reluctant to move from their birthplace

Op-Ed: Why it is so hard to be a pacifist in Azerbaijan

September 25, 2019

“Traitors” and bloodthirsty love for the motherland

Op-ed: Even if Abkhazia gets its own currency, will the authorities be able to manage it?

September 20, 2019

Abkhazia faces a dilemma: it is impossible to develop the economy by remaining in the zone of the Russian ruble, but the authorities are not ready for complex economic decisions

Op-ed: Russian elections over – main events just beginning

September 12, 2019

The Moscow pre-election protests were a demonstration of the strength of the opposition, and this is more important than the formal victory of the current authorities

Op-ed: why controversial ex interior minister Gakharia was appointed PM

Bidzina Ivanishvili

September 11, 2019

Unofficial leader of the country and billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili is preparing to get his Georgian Dream party a third term in office – Gakharia’s ‘electoral skills’ are more important than public protest

Bids begin for the Abkhaz presidency

September 01, 2019

With whom will the former president of Abkhazia side – and for what price?

Op-ed: You'd better lie truthfully

Azerbaijan-Armenia

August 26, 2019

Calculator - the worst enemy of Azerbaijan's propaganda

Op-Ed: “Don’t read books written by a killer”

August 24, 2019

On famous Russian author Zakhar Prilepin, who boasts about killing Ukrainians in the war in the Donbass

Op-ed: Growing protests in Moscow will lead to increased repression – but the public is ready

August 17, 2019

Head of Russian media outlet OVDinfo Grigory Okhotin: stubborn resistance to violence, as well as the dissemination of information, will prevail

Op-ed: Why are people drowning at Azerbaijan's beaches?

August 04, 2019

How to bathe in the Caspian Sea and not force corn sellers to drop their wares and rescue you

Are traditions untouchable, or can they be modernised? The case of N. Ossetia

Traveling the Caucasus

July 30, 2019

How the question of modernity is battling itself out in North Ossetia

'Everybody held long ago that communism would never win' - photostory from Soviet time Tbilisi

Georgia

July 06, 2019

'My soviet life', stories by Tbilisi photographer Giorgi Tsagareli: “What are you taking photos of here, pal?”

Op-ed: when a man in Azerbaijan is guilty just for being a man

June 28, 2019

How a strange brand of feminism deprived me of my seat on a bus from Baku to Tbilisi

Op-ed: The Church in Georgia is too involved in peoples' personal lives and it’s time to object it

Georgia

June 15, 2019

If the country wants to join the West, its liberal-minded people need to learn to stand up for their principles

The girl they told me not to be

GenderLife

May 30, 2019

Her whole life, she never once called her former husband by his name. He was always "the stranger"

Op-ed: scandal around Baku Europa League final

May 20, 2019

A story combining sports, politics, corruption, security and logistics

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