Army or education? Young men in Armenia face a dilemma
By ARMINE AVETISYAN OC Media The new law on conscription has left many Armenian students stunned. While stressing their commitment to serving the country, many [more >>>]
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From the boat race to Azerbaijani jails: how dirty gas sells itself to elites
By JO RAM, PASCOE SABIDO* OpenDemocracy UK A new report exposes the network of lobbying and hypocrisy that risks locking Europe into decades of unnecessary [more >>>]
Georgia’s Democracy: The Puzzle of a Red Country Turning Blue
By ERIC LIVNY, GIORGI MZHAVANADZE, YAROSLAVA BABYCH Georgia Today On October 21, 2017, Georgia’s entire political map was painted in different shades of blue – [more >>>]
This tyrant’s reach knows no borders
By EDITORIAL BOARD The Washington Post JUST PAST 7 p.m. on May 29 in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, an independent journalist, Afgan Mukhtarli, called [more >>>]
Commentary: Little hope for a negotiated solution to the Karabakh conflict in the short-term
By BENYAMIN POGHOSYAN, Dr. Commonspace Armenian and Azerbaijani societies continue to prepare for war despite the prospect of a presidential summit in the autumn. The [more >>>]
Behind Azerbaijan’s facades
By SERGEY RUMYANTSEV* Translated from Russian by Maxim Edwards openDemocracy In Azerbaijan, power is strictly a family business. The inventiveness of Baku’s urban planners when [more >>>]
Azerbaijan’s Lost Transparency
By THOMAS DE WAAL (Senior Fellow Carnegie Europe) Carnegie Europe Azerbaijan’s suspension from a coalition of energy-extracting countries will harm Baku’s international brand and image [more >>>]
Erdogan condemns Armenian ‘occupation,’ but says Northern Cyprus ‘unfairly isolated
By UZAY BULUT* The Jerusalem Post The northern part of the Republic of Cyprus has been under the occupation of Turkish military since 1974. “The [more >>>]
Abkhazian Elections Offer Several Surprises
By OLIVER URS LENZ EurasiaNet Former Abkhazian President Alexander Ankvab has made a successful comeback in politics after winning a seat in Abkhazia’s 35-member parliament, [more >>>]
‘Turkey is the biggest jail for journalists in the world’
By MARC PERELMAN France 24 Can Dündar is the former editor in chief of Turkey’s Cumhuriyet newspaper. After being charged with espionage and surviving an [more >>>]