Sabine Freizer is Caucasus Project Director of the International Crisis Group, based in Tbilisi. She was awarded a doctorate from the London School of Economics for research on peacebuilding and civil society, and has worked with the OSCE, the UNHCR, the European Commission and Britain’s department for international development on political and human-rights issues in the Balkans, the Caucasus and central Asia.

Recent articles

Nagorno-Karabakh has followed Transdniestria and South Ossetia in holding an independence referendum. But democracy in these "non-recognised entities" is not so simple, reports Sabine Freizer of the International Crisis Group.

Armenia’s constitutional referendum reveals a flawed political system ruling over disaffected citizens whose faith in western-sponsored democracy is being sorely tested, reports Sabine Freizer in Yerevan.

Ilham Aliev’s ruling party declared victory before the votes were counted, but the opposition can still challenge some of its fraudulent results, reports the International Crisis Group’s Sabine Freizer in Baku.

A surge of anti-state violence in Uzbekistan suggests that the policies of the autocratic Tashkent regime and the attitude of its international sponsors are alike in urgent need of reform.

After the “rose revolution”, how will Georgia’s leaders cope with their difficult legacy – endemic corruption, internal schisms, geopolitical pressures? An experienced political analyst recently in Tbilisi maps the strategic options facing the south Caucasian state’s new president, Mikhail Saakashvili.