Turkish lira casts pall over Caucasus and Central Asia
The Turkish Lira last week ended one of the most turbulent weeks...
Maximilian Hess Aug 21, 2018
The Turkish Lira last week ended one of the most turbulent weeks...
The government of Iran has reprimanded Georgia for allegedly forcing Iranian women...
When a friend asked Kato Abramishvili, a 40-year-old single mother in Tbilisi,...
A United States congressman is visiting the Caucasus in a show of...
Travelling one evening on the train from Astana to Almaty in Kazakhstan,...
A rowdy rally was held in front of the former Russian embassy...
When Alexander Kananyan moved to Kelbajar in 2000, it was “completely destroyed,”...
Two women from Georgia’s Pankisi Gorge have won first place on a...
Georgia has become the first former Soviet state to legalize the consumption...
Love him or hate him, Georgia’s richest man Bidzina Ivanishvili is the...
The cryptocurrency business can be a flash in the pan....
In the ruined resort town of Tskaltubo, the Soviet-era hotels were once...
Russia, the world’s biggest drinker of Georgian wine, has threatened to tighten...
Presidential elections are scheduled for this fall in Georgia, and many expect...
Outside Abkhazia’s derelict former parliament, burnt beyond repair during the territory’s secessionist...
Armenia's newly elected prime minister Nikol Pashinyan visited Brussels and had a...
The central banks of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan have come together to agree...
A high-profile sexual harassment scandal that has rocked Georgia's activist community has...
A man who once supplied intelligence to Russia also has been supplying...
Azerbaijan suffered a massive, country-wide blackout after an explosion at a power...
Georgia has arrested a Turkish man allegedly involved in the killing of...
School admissions tests can make students break a metaphorical sweat. But that...
Russia has extended an embargo on the transit of a range of Ukrainian...
Kars, in far eastern Turkey, has a long history as a frontier,...
Georgia and its breakaway territories have launched a tit-for-tat blacklist battle in...
Two Syrian airlines have been denied access to Georgian airspace in retaliation...
A new draft convention on the legal status of the Caspian Sea,...
Next time Matt Damon gets marooned on Mars, he may be whiling...
On April 4, 2016, Gevorg Azoyan was in the mountains of Karabakh...
When Georgia moved its parliament to Kutaisi – 150 miles and more...
“They say we are all terrorists,” says Fatima, a guesthouse owner near...
Georgia has a new prime minister-designate after a surprise decision by former...
Upwards of a thousand dignitaries – including the presidents of Turkey, Georgia,...
Russia’s top diplomat has reportedly chided Kazakhstan over Astana’s decision to provide...
Protests led by a murdered teenager’s father are set to continue in...
Russian soldiers hold a position just 250 meters from Georgia's main east-west...
One man’s battle for justice for his murdered son has turned into...
Residents of a village on Georgia's border with Turkey have blocked a...
In a modern office space in Tbilisi’s trendy Vake district, a scruffy...
The Syrian government recognized the independence of Georgia’s breakaway regions Abkhazia and...
A pair of tourists enjoy an al fresco meal at a café...
Informal trade between Georgia and its breakaway territories, Abkhazia and South Ossetia,...
After a Georgian court ruled that protesting subway workers can strike only...
Gay rights groups in Georgia called off a planned rally on May...
In Tbilisi’s industrial-chic factory-turned-cultural center Fabrika, a mix of glamorous Georgian models,...
Georgia's fierce culture wars escalated over the weekend after a heavy-handed police...
Something caught the eye of Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili in the middle...
Two Russians are having a conversation following the peaceful revolution in Armenia, goes...
With each year that passes, the Immortal Regiment in the northern Kazakhstan...
Safe sex has become the latest battleground in Georgia's culture wars after...
Armenian protesters have shut down roads across the country, responding to protest...
The Georgian Democratic Republic was short lived – lasting only from 1918...
The leaders of the protest movement that toppled Armenia's longtime leader Serzh...
Georgia’s richest man Bidzina Ivanishvili has emerged from seclusion to take back...
Azerbaijan’s most powerful families have been using offshore networks to make investments...
An unusual meme swept Georgia’s internet last month. Netizens were posting photos...
The Agara Sugar Company, in the eponymous town about 90 kilometers from...
Veranika Ebralidze, a stay-at-home mother of two from Tbilisi, took a deep...
For a few months now, I have been hearing stories of Kyrgyzstan...
Members of a Greek death metal band were arrested in Tbilisi after...
In a damp, dimly lit tunnel underneath Tbilisi, a singer, clad in...
Azerbaijan's presidential election was, as predicted, a non-event. Ever-incumbent leader Ilham Aliyev...
There was a time when Turkey felt like a safe haven for...
The sweet, pungent aroma of vanilla, nutmeg, cinnamon and cloves hangs in...
On its heavily fortified border with the Islamic Republic of Iran, Armenia...
Six miners were killed and three seriously injured on April 5 after...
The utter control wielded by Tajikistan’s ruling family over business in the...
The Georgian government has unveiled an ambitious new project to reintegrate its...
Armenia’s Justice Ministry suspended activities at a Turkey-linked company hired by the...
American experts on the post-Soviet space discussed United States policy toward a...
The government of Chechnya has expressed its readiness to construct a road...
Hunter has become hunted in Georgia’s separatist region of Abkhazia, as locals...
On a mild Sunday afternoon, before a whistling, clapping, honking crowd of...
Nowruz, the Persian New Year, brings one certainty to Armenia, Azerbaijan and...
On his recent visit to Washington, Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili took every...
It was a surreal tableau – an enormous tree floating across the...
Masha Udensiva-Brenner tells the story of New Yorker staff writer Adam Davidson’s...
An opposition Azerbaijani journalist remains in legal limbo in Ukraine after a...
A ski lift careened out of control, with people jumping or thrown...
A protracted tug of war over the body of a Georgian man...
The village of Karajala is fairly typical of the dozens of settlements...
A middle-aged school teacher pulling off a hip-hop act with her students...
Powerbrokers in Armenia are set to elect a new president, completing the...
Family members of a Georgian man who died in custody in the...
A year ago, when the European Union declared that Georgian citizens could...
This February marks the 30th anniversary of the events that launched the...
The United States has reportedly notified Armenia and other countries that they...
For years, Beijing has cast a shadow on a patch of swamp...
For centuries, mountainous southwestern Georgia lay at the crossroad of the Ottoman,...
Released from prison for a day to attend a memorial service for...
A memoir by former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili has received a rocky...
“To be a Eurasianist should be cool, it should be stylish.”...
“Tea,” our friend Lasha indicated with a head nod, driving past fields...
A suspended ceiling in a Tbilisi metro station collapsed on January 30,...
Two kilometers from the border crossing into breakaway Abkhazia, the village of...
The largest hydroelectricity project in Georgia’s independent history looks set to go...
Renowned opera singer Giorgi Todua, a Georgian with Russian citizenship, performed at...
A head severed almost 180 years ago is causing a stir in...
On January 25, the chairperson of the National Assembly of the Republic...
Deep in Tbilisi’s Avlabari district sits an old, derelict wooden house. Beneath...