Azerbaijan: Elaborate Smear Campaign Targets Prominent Activist
A scandal has erupted in Azerbaijani legal and activist circles after the publication of a collected volume of the personal correspondence and diary entries of the prominent human rights activist and...
View ArticleUS Citizen Accused of Plotting to Assassinate Armenian Officials
Armenian authorities have issued an arrest warrant for a United States citizen they say planned a series of “terrorist attacks” and “assassinations” against senior government figures. The move appears...
View ArticleCase Continues Against South Ossetian Journalist Accused of “Slandering”...
A criminal case against one of South Ossetia's leading civic activists and journalists is set to continue after a court rejected her appeal on charges of slander.The Akhalgori-based journalist Tamara...
View ArticleRussia Aims to Lure South Ossetian, Abkhazian Patients Away from Georgia
A new agreement will encourage residents of Georgia’s breakaway region of South Ossetia to go to Russia for medical treatment, in a bid to limit one of Tbilisi’s main levers of influence in the...
View ArticleAzerbaijan: Higher Oil Prices Mean Increased Military Spending
While low energy revenues have forced Azerbaijan's government to cut back in recent years, a recovery in energy prices is allowing Baku to start spending more – including on one of its highest...
View ArticleGeorgia: Pankisi Counter-Terror Raid Sparks Controversy
A counter-terrorism raid by Georgian security forces has sparked accusations of excessive force and an investigation by the country's prosecutor's office. Analysts say the case will determine how...
View ArticleControversial Prisoner Exchange Throws Abkhazian Leadership into Crisis
Abkhazia's release of a Georgian prisoner has resulted in large-scale protests in the breakaway republic and forced its de facto leader into crisis mode.On December 25, the Abkhazian authorities...
View ArticleGeorgia: Security Forces' Killing of Teenager Runs Risk of Alienating...
A teenager shot during the counter-terrorism operations in Georgia’s Pankisi Gorge has died, sparking protest in one of the country’s most isolated regions.Temirlan Machalikashvilli died in the early...
View ArticleKarabakh: More (Relative) Calm Ahead in 2018?
2017 began with dire predictions for Nagorno Karabakh. Writing in February for the Council on Foreign Relations, former American envoy for Karabakh Carey Cavanaugh argued that “the likelihood that...
View ArticleAzerbaijani Journalist Abducted in Georgia Sentenced to 6 Years in Prison
Azerbaijani investigative journalist Afgan Mukhtarli, who went missing in Tbilisi in May 2017 before resurfacing in a detention facility in Baku, has been sentenced to six years in prison. The harsh...
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