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Published in: HomeTurkey and the Armenians: politics of historyA new generation's encounter with the Armenian genocide of 1915 is producing fresh understandings of Turkey's - and...
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Published in: oDRVoices from Abkhazia: Helmut’s StoryBorn in Germany during the war, Helmut ended up in a Soviet internment camp. Later he moved to the region of...
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Published in: oDRAzerbaijan: the geopolitical conundrumThe recent Eurovision song contest catapulted Azerbaijan into world news and focused attention on its internal...
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Published in: HomeDemocracy in Abkhazia: a testing year
An eventful political period in the Black Sea republic of Abkhazia that began in 2011 with the premature death of...
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Published in: HomeGeorgia: the next evolution
The direction of Georgia's domestic politics and international orientation has been much disputed since the "rose...
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Published in: HomeGeorgia: from diplomacy to politics
A veteran Georgian diplomat has chosen to enter his country's disputatious political arena. A hard decision that had...
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Published in: HomeArmenia-Turkey: the end of rapprochement
A diplomatic process designed to normalise relations between Armenia and Turkey led to the signing of two protocols...
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Published in: HomeEurope’s Armenian policy: the cost of indulgence
The story of a powerful and ambitious Armenian oligarch is also a case-study in the flaws of European Union policy...
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Published in: HomeAbkhazia: presidential election, political future
The Black Sea republic of Abkhazia has elected its third president since securing effective independence from...
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Published in: HomeAzerbaijani demolitions: an update
The authorities’ destruction of a building and precious archive of human-rights workers in Baku is an act of...
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Published in: HomeGeorgian democracy: three rows and a lesson
A divisive period in Georgian politics has pitted a range of forces - the opposition, the Orthodox church, the...
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Published in: HomeAzerbaijan: speed without system
The authorities in Baku seem intent on building a new Dubai on the Caspian. But there is a dark side to the boom in...
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Published in: HomeGeorgians from Abkhazia: beyond limbo
Many Georgians displaced by the Abkhazia war of 1992-93 now live in rudimentary centres around the country. They...
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Published in: HomeAbkhazia and the promises of princes
The success of self-determination efforts in Kosovo and now South Sudan heightens the aspirations to statehood of...
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Published in: HomeGeorgia at a crossroads: after the post-war
In Tbilisi, memories of the bitter conflict with Russia in August 2008 are fresh, but everywhere too are signs that...
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Published in: oDRSochi: a city with no mosqueIn 2014 Russia will host the Winter Olympics in Sochi, once upon a time the capital of independent Circassia. The...
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Published in: HomeThe Armenia-Turkey protocols: a year on
The process of dialogue between neighbours locked in an enduring dispute over the events of 1915 is already in...
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Published in: oDRTricky business in Abkhazia
Since Abkhazia declared its independence from Georgia in 2008, Russian money has been pouring in. But when it comes...
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Published in: HomeGeorgia’s mafia: the politics of survival
A prominent feature of Georgian life both before and after the Soviet period has been the influence of a powerful...
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Published in: HomeThe guns of August: two years later
The bitter conflict over South Ossetia in August 2008 has turned to post-war stalemate. But just as the war and the...
