Georgia Border Heats Up as Russia Encroaches on Territory
The Greater Caucasus Mountains form a natural buffer between Russia and Georgia. But in the absence of a border agreement … Read more
The Greater Caucasus Mountains form a natural buffer between Russia and Georgia. But in the absence of a border agreement … Read more
In using strong-armed tactics against his critics in Istanbul, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has counted on the support … Read more
Increasingly under pressure in Egypt, the Copts, one of the world’s oldest Christian communities, are starting to migrate to Georgia, … Read more
What began as a protest to save a park from being demolished in Istanbul’s historic city center, Taksim, has become … Read more
Mass media and social networks have emerged as fault lines in Turkey’s deepening crisis over Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s … Read more
The mass protests that have swept Turkey in recent days seem to have a quicksand quality for Prime Minister Recep … Read more
Having tripled the size of its economy over the past decade, Turkey is invariably held up as an economic success … Read more
Armenia recently experienced its “Hello Revolution.” Now, after a hailstorm earlier this month wiped out a vast array of crops, … Read more
A EurasiaNet Partner Post from: RFE/RL Three 19-year-old students who attended university with the surviving suspect in the April 15 … Read more
News that the suspected perpetrators of the April 15 Boston bombings have links to Kazakhstan – albeit extremely tenuous ones … Read more
Eurasianet Commentary Last Monday I was on Boylston Street, having just completed my first Boston Marathon, when the bombs detonated. … Read more
Half a world away from Massachusetts, a small town in Kyrgyzstan is reeling from the news that two of its … Read more
Kyrgyzstan’s efforts to attract investors by auctioning off mining licenses, starting with the country’s second-largest gold deposit, have run into … Read more
Recent media and human-rights activist reports claim that the South Caucasus countries of Georgia and Azerbaijan are playing an indirect … Read more
Eurasianet Commentary There’s a coffee shop in an out-of-the-way part of Baku where the walls are covered with illustrations from … Read more