Azerbaijan's president suggests coronavirus may require a crackdown on opposition In his Nowruz address, Aliyev said that his political opponents were a “fifth column" trying to use the outbreak to “destroy Azerbaijan.” Joshua Kucera Mar 19, 2020
Armenia to build instant hospital ward for COVID-19 Within “3-4 days” the country’s main infectious disease hospital should have a new 40-bed ward, the minister of health reported. Ani Mejlumyan Mar 18, 2020
Azerbaijan releases imprisoned journalist who had been abducted from Georgia Afgan Mukhtarli was freed after nearly three years in prison. His rendering from Tbilisi drew attention to the clout that the authoritarian Azerbaijani government wielded in neighboring Georgia. Giorgi Lomsadze Mar 18, 2020
Caucasus unrecognized states remain coronavirus-free The isolation of Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Nagorno-Karabakh have served them well as the disease spreads all around them. Joshua Kucera Mar 17, 2020