Eurasianet

Vakhtang (Buba) Kikabidze, a Georgian singer and actor universally loved across the former Soviet Union, has died at the age of 84, drawing the curtain on an era.

They face obstacles, though, including globalization and an education system that gives little time to minority languages.

Part of the mission is to ensure that Russians engage constructively with people in their new home.

The organization has been facing accusations of political bias in its investigations (or lack thereof) into cultural heritage in Karabakh.

The unique Islamic structures stand on the fringes of Georgian culture.

The legendary semi-sweet Khvanchkara is an international brand – and used to be an easy target for counterfeiters. Now the police are stepping in.

A project to archive one of the Azerbaijani capital's oldest neighborhoods interrupts efforts to wipe its memory away.

Georgian cinema has been enjoying a renaissance, becoming a darling of the international independent film world. But it’s also running into political problems at home.

The bird’s cultural significance may have aided its rapid dispersal.

Around 3,000 items of unique cultural value may have been stolen from 14 museums.

The Ministry of Culture issued a new statement responding to international criticism of an earlier announcement that it intended to “remove” Armenian “forgeries” from churches on its territory.

The minister of culture said that a working group will be set up to identify what he called “Armenian forgery” from churches, putting into practice a pseudoscientific theory that denies the churches’ Armenian origin.

Changing tastes threaten askiya, a centuries-old Uzbek tradition that prizes wit, improvisation, and mastery of language.

Tashkent is regretting its early embrace of the Chinese app.

The unfinished structure was the result of a brief period of direct Roman control over Armenia in the second century CE.