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Published in: oDRGeorgia through a glass, darklySince the break-up of the USSR, the South Caucasus has trodden a chequered path, both political and economic. Is...
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Published in: oDRThe polyphonic presidentMikheil Saakashvili, ex-president of Georgia, was once hailed as the very archetype of a model post-Soviet leader –...
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Published in: oDRFive Years after the Russian-Georgian WarFive years after the Russian-Georgian war, Georgian Premier Bidzina Ivanishvili has announced that Tbilisi is ready...
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Published in: oDRIs Georgia a terrorist state?Was there a secret programme to arm and train North Caucasus militants under the previous Georgian government? A...
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Published in: oDRLife in the Chechen closetUmar is 25 and from Gudermes in Chechnya. He is gay. What can the future hold for him in the macho, dzhigit, society...
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Published in: oDRHas Russia abandoned Dagestan?Police corruption has reached epic levels in the Russian republic of Dagestan. The men in charge with tackling the...
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Published in: oDRAbkhazia: recognising the ruinsThe conflict in Abkhazia has devastated the landscape. Tourism could be encouraged by restoring some of the old...
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Published in: HomeArmenia's election messageA flawed presidential vote that confirms the incumbent in power also exposes anew the dysfunction of democracy in...
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Published in: HomeBidzina Ivanishvili and the new-old Georgia
The election victory of Bidzina Ivanishvili has reconfigured Georgia's political landscape, dominated by Mikheil...
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Published in: HomeGeorgia's election: lesson and prospect
The first constitutional transfer of power in Tbilisi has implications for an assessment of the immediate past as...
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Published in: oDRCan rancour in the south Caucasus go beyond tit for tat?
For close on a millennium Azeris and Armenians co-existed reasonably peaceably. At the end of the Soviet period...
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Published in: HomeGeorgia: from roses to ashes
The eve of an election is usually a moment to predict which side might win. But as interesting with regard to...
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Published in: HomeGeorgia: politics of punishment
Behind Georgia's prison-abuse scandal lies a large-scale, self-funding penal system whose effects - not least...
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Published in: oDRTime for Azerbaijan to open up
Azerbaijan has hydrocarbon riches and a strategic position, which means that all the great powers have an interest...
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Published in: HomeGeorgia's prisons: roots of scandal
The exposure of violent abuse in the Georgian prison system has shocked its people and rocked the government of...
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Published in: oDRThe shepherds of SevukhThe Avars are an ancient people living in the mountains of Dagestan (North Caucasus). Many of them are shepherds....
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Published in: oDRDoes Abkhazia need a foreign policy makeover?Abkhazia's limited international recognition has so far only made it more dependent on Russia. Sufian Zhemukhov...
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Published in: oDRThe Kremlin and Georgia – collusion or illusion?
Georgia’s politicians are hypersensitive to charges of collusion with Russia, the old imperial power. President...
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Published in: oDRNatalya Estemirova – murdered, not forgottenThree years ago the indomitable Natalya Estemirova was murdered in Chechnya. Her killers remain at large, and...
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Published in: HomeAbkhazia, from conflict to statehood
A bitter post-Soviet war in 1992-93 saw the Black Sea territory of Abkhazia resist invasion from Georgia and...
