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Council of Europe leaders appear intent on holding Baku accountable for rights practices.

A former US Caspian energy envoy recalls the ups and downs of getting a key post-Soviet energy export route built.

Questions remain over how Baku will find the extra gas, and whether it will need help from its neighbors.

The nation just cinched its status as a candidate for EU membership. Now it's time for a European makeover.

Whether the Armenian diamond-cutting industry is hurt or helped by the likely sanctions will depend on the EU's ability to trace the gems' origin to Russia.

Top Georgian MPs went to Budapest to sweet-talk Viktor Orbán ahead of the EU's expansion summit.

Azerbaijan is angry about France's sale of hardware and weapons to its rival Armenia. It's been quiet so far on Georgia's role in facilitating the transaction.

After briefly forcing a happy face over a historic development for their country, Georgian politicians are back at each other's throats.

Armenia has broken a major taboo by forging defense ties with France and the U.S.

Georgian Dream claims credit where credit doesn’t seem due.

The path to actual membership is very fraught and very long. But for now the mood in Tbilisi is exultant.

As Baku rejects French involvement in peace talks, the leaders of Georgia and Azerbaijan seem to agree that the countries of the South Caucasus should "address regional issues themselves."

The Franklin Club has resumed its lecture series, and in the coming months, it aims to launch a public outreach campaign and voter registration drive.

“They try to silence opposing voices”

Expansion of the Southern Gas Corridor pipelines carrying Azerbaijani gas to Europe is on hold pending confirmation that Europe will buy the gas. Baku's offensive to retake Nagorno-Karabakh could further complicate things.

The government says the president spurned the constitution by failing to get its consent for her Europe trip.

Words of encouragement came from the European Council President as fears mounted in Tbilisi of being left out of enlargement.

Ashgabat’s shifting position opens the way for expansion of natural gas supplies to Europe.

The figurehead president warned that denying EU membership candidate status would embolden Russia and empower the already-ascendant forces of illiberalism in Georgia.

Yerevan and Baku have fundamental disagreements about how the rights and security of Karabakh’s Armenian population should be guaranteed. Observers are pessimistic that they can be bridged.

The EU mediator said progress was made towards a final agreement.

Georgian Dream derides “pseudo-liberals” as it withdraws from a European political alliance.

Abdullo Shamsiddin’s supporters have said his apparent crime was to “like” a post on social media.

Before her visit, the top diplomat spoke about "attempts to divert the country from its pro-European course."

Kazakh traders have been helping fill Russian demand for high-tech consumer goods and other items hard to obtain under Western sanctions.