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Eight years ago, the Azerbaijani government tried to make a hero out of a soldier who killed an Armenian soldier in his sleep. But now it wants to drop the subject.

Articles on the U.S. Embassy-sponsored website call COVID-19 a "fake pandemic" and oppose vaccines. Health experts warn it could make the crisis worse.

Dozens of babies are marooned in hospitals, their international parents unable to travel during the coronavirus crisis.

Tbilisi may have refused to let the insult slide because Georgia’s coronavirus response has become an electoral platform for the governing party, which faces a parliamentary vote this fall.

Reports from May 18-24 on how the pandemic has upended life in Central Asia and the South Caucasus.

The nation is working on a coronavirus-conscious tourism plan.

This newest escalation of the history wars threatens to drag the Caucasus into the larger post-Soviet struggle over the memory of World War II that has poisoned ties between Russia and many of its neighbors.

Two weeks after the country largely ended its lockdown, the number of coronavirus cases has shot up and the government is preparing to use a repurposed sports hall to treat patients.

The allegations are not taken very seriously outside Georgia's opposition, but they are taking on new life after Tbilisi terminated its contract with an American energy company.

Reports from May 11-17 on how the pandemic has upended life in Central Asia and the South Caucasus.

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan – who was named as part of the conspiracy – has remained silent.

This year, Azerbaijan embraces both the Orient and bisexuality, while Georgia complains about the West.

Tens of thousands of Georgian workers are unable to access Turkish tea plantations while the border remains closed. Cultivators are anxious over debt and further privatization.

Hardening attitudes on both sides of the conflict have slowed the release of the film, nine years in the making.

The Council of Europe convention was opposed by right-wing and social conservative groups, which objected to provisions calling for sex abuse education for school children.

Armenian ruling party members have been involved in two physical altercations in recent days. They say they are just responding to verbal provocations.

Reports from May 4-10 on how the pandemic has upended life in Central Asia and the South Caucasus.

“The police say you can't go out the door, but no one says your husband can't beat you.” 


With the disease spreading far more slowly in Georgia, Armenians are asking: what did they do that we didn’t?

Facebook has pulled the plug on a fake news operation in Georgia that had been capitalizing on the coronavirus pandemic to sway public opinion in favor of the government.

After the government lifted the coronavirus lockdown, many Armenians flocked to cafes and restaurants. Others remain wary.

This briefing explores government policy and food provision in the Caucasus and Central Asia as COVID-19 upsets farming and trade networks around the world.

Even with coronavirus serving as a belated impetus to push through long-stalled reforms, the five members of the Eurasian Economic Union show limited willingness to help each other.

Skeptics say the roundup is a show meant to create the illusion of fighting corruption even as higher-level officials remain untouched.

Armenians are now able to go back to (open-air) bars and restaurants, and all factories are allowed to reopen.