Caucasus

Just days before Armenia’s parliamentary elections, the country’s political contest is increasingly moving beyond domestic politics and becoming part of a broader geopolitical confrontation between Ru...

Counterintelligence Success or the Start of a New Political Campaign? When officers from Georgia’s State Security Service arrived at the home of journalist Irakli Chikhladze in the early hours of May...

On June 2, an event is being held at the Akhalkalaki railway and logistics complex in Georgia to mark the commissioning of the Baku–Tbilisi–Kars (BTK) railway line following its modernization. The BTK...

In recent weeks, Armenia has once again found itself at the center of international media attention. The renewed interest stems from several overlapping developments: preparations for parliamentary el...

At the military parade held in Yerevan on May 28—the first such parade in ten years—Armenia showcased military equipment from seven different countries. Most of the hardware was displayed publicly for...

2050 — At seven o’clock in the morning, hundreds of autonomous cargo drones rise above the Caspian Sea. They move between offshore wind farms and Eurasia’s largest renewable energy terminal on Azerbai...

At the end of May, the capitals of the South Caucasus once again immerse themselves in rituals of remembrance. The President of Azerbaijan symbolically marks Independence Day in liberated Karabakh. In...

Russia’s agricultural watchdog, Rosselkhoznadzor, will introduce temporary restrictions from May 30 on the import of fresh tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, greens and strawberries from Armenia until a sp...

Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan described U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s brief visit to Armenia on May 26 and the bilateral documents signed during the trip as evidence that the strat...

A new political bombshell exploded in Armenia today, pointing to what appears to be a large-scale Russian plan to interfere in Armenia’s parliamentary elections and remove Prime Minister Nikol Pashiny...

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s visit to Yerevan on Tuesday, May 26, is becoming more than a routine diplomatic trip. It is emerging as an important political signal for the entire South Caucasu...

On Sunday, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan made an important statement announcing that the railway connection between Turkey and Armenia had finally been opened. On his page on the social medi...

As the date of the parliamentary elections in Armenia approaches, political confrontation is becoming increasingly intense, while the level of public tension between the opposition and the ruling auth...

Turkey and Armenia are preparing to launch direct trade after completing bureaucratic preparations, but prospects for the full opening of their shared border still depend on Azerbaijan’s position and...

In the early 2000s, human trafficking in the South Caucasus was associated primarily with clandestine routes, the movement of women across borders, and criminal networks operating between the post-Sov...

In the political language of the post-Soviet space, phrases such as “a civilized divorce” are rarely heard. Yet it was precisely this formula that Russian President Vladimir Putin used while commentin...