The Georgian capital will soon be shooting away fireworks like there's no tomorrow. For some of the city's non-human denizens there indeed may not be a tomorrow.
Shahmardan Comes Out of the Well addresses a topic still harrowing for Kazakhstan a century on: the famine unleashed when the Soviets embarked on the collectivization of agriculture.
Amidst strained relations between Armenia and Russia, Russia's state atomic energy company will modernize Armenia's nuclear power plant and presumably build a new unit.
It will be the second straight presidential election, and sixth consecutive election overall, to be held without the participation of the country's two biggest opposition parties.