Bradley Jardine | Eurasianet

Xi’s got Rahmon right where Xi wants him. (Tajik presidential administration)

Perspectives | Tajikistan’s security ties with China a Faustian bargain

Tajikistan is hooked on the Chinese economy. It’s now taking risky security advice from Beijing.

Bradley Jardine, Edward Lemon Mar 2, 2020

Georgian Orthodox Church takes aim at Armenian churches

“There is interest in erasing any evidence of Armenians in Tbilisi.”

Neil Hauer, Bradley Jardine Nov 5, 2018

How one Georgian family built a national ice hockey league

Despite material disadvantages, Georgia's hockey team is moving up the charts.

Bradley Jardine, Neil Hauer Sep 25, 2018

Azerbaijan-Georgia border dispute a political, and literal, minefield

Neither side seems to want the minefield cleared.

Bradley Jardine Sep 19, 2018

Armenia’s new government takes aim at vote-buying

Efforts to reform the voting system are meeting resistance, though, from the old forces who benefit from the status quo.

Bradley Jardine Aug 31, 2018

Winter WikiCamp Armenia, 2016 (David Saroyan/Wikimedia Commons)

Fresh from revolution, Armenia’s tech industry has high expectations

“We supported a movement and they won – now we expect them to deliver tangible results.”

Bradley Jardine Aug 27, 2018

Armenia’s political parties prepare to test their strength

The vote for Yerevan mayor previews key parliamentary elections to come and tests the new government's vow to make elections fair.

Bradley Jardine Aug 22, 2018

Azerbaijan starts blocking online pornography

While Azerbaijan is well known for blocking other sorts of information online, this appears to be the first time it's targeted pornography.

Bradley Jardine Aug 17, 2018

After 100 days, what's new in the “new Armenia”?

The new government's young team is pursuing an ambitious housecleaning, thrilling its core supporters but raising questions about overreach.

Grigor Atanesian, Bradley Jardine, Joshua Kucera Aug 17, 2018

Two women from Georgia's Pankisi Gorge, Nato Kavtarashvili and Mediko Machalikashvili, winning a Georgian cooking show, "My Cuisine Rules."

Pankisi women win top prize in Georgian cooking show

The women said they entered the contest to try to show Georgians more about their region, which in recent years has been stereotyped as a hotbed of Islamist radicalism.

Bradley Jardine Aug 10, 2018

Nine Armenian teenagers wounded in anti-LGBT attack

The assault highlighted the precarious position of Armenia's LGBT activists, who supported the recent uprising but did so quietly so as to not offend the socially conservative majority.

Bradley Jardine Aug 6, 2018

Crackdown widens in Azerbaijan’s second city as police kill assassination suspects

Some have accused Baku of using the crackdown to sow fear about Islamist radicalism and to target the political opposition.

Bradley Jardine Aug 1, 2018

Armenia shelves Iranian railway project as Azerbaijan steams ahead

The costs of the ambitious Armenian section are too high to justify its construction, the minister of transportation announced.

Bradley Jardine Jul 27, 2018

Laundry drying in the Railwayman Sanatorium, a Soviet hotel that has been home to IDPs for decades.

Georgia’s displaced stuck in crumbling Soviet resort town

Decades after the war with Abkhazia, thousands of displaced Georgians still squat in the Soviet Union's once-magisterial hotels.

Bradley Jardine Jul 26, 2018

The Amulsar Goldmine will be an open-pit mine, which locals say threatens Jermuk with dust clouds. (All photos by Bradley Jardine)

Mining dispute threatens Armenia’s post-revolutionary political consensus

The controversy pits the grassroots activists who brought a reformist government to power against foreign investors who promise the economic growth Armenia needs.

Bradley Jardine, Grigor Atanesian Jul 24, 2018