Legacy and death must linger perennially even in the minds of the most megalomaniacal autocrats, and this is why preparations for Turkmenistan’s future are proceeding apace.
As Georgian politicians near a possible resolution to their long-running political crisis, they are facing increasing impatience from their American and European allies.
After previously denying it, Azerbaijan now says that Armenia fired Russian-made rockets during last year’s war. And now they’re trying to make things difficult for Moscow.
Activists had been pushing for their government to adopt the landmark international anti-domestic violence agreement. But “big brother” Turkey has made it more difficult.
Azerbaijan has been playing hardball with Armenia over the prisoners it continues to hold. But with a botched POW release that wasn’t, Armenia has weakened its position all by itself.
This appears to be the end of the two-year legal saga of Robert Kocharyan. Now he says he’s going back to politics to challenge his political nemesis, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.
What’s in a name? Azerbaijan’s decision to stop using the name “Nagorno-Karabakh” is the latest chapter in the long history of contested terminology in the region. Our weekly Post-War Report.
A second attempt at mediation by an EU diplomat failed to achieve results, as Georgia's western partners are proving unable to help the country's two warring political factions find common ground.
The new law would triple penalties for insult and defamation. The government and press have had a combative relationship since the coming to power of Nikol Pashinyan, himself a former journalist.
The president gets another title, ignores soaring food prices, starts a charity, and pens a ditty to his favorite city. This and more in our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.
Amid heightened concerns about the fate of historic cultural heritage sites in Karabakh comes news that Azerbaijan has razed a three-year-old Armenian church. Our weekly Post-War Report.
