Twenty five years after the separatist wars that shook Georgia, 265,000 displaced people still struggle to make ends meet — and their voices heard.
A hundred years after the Ottoman genocide, Armenia is turning the page on a dark century and looking outwards. When will Turkey?
A survivor of Anders Behring Breivik's mass murder supports recent court verdict that the Norwegian state has infringed on the human rights of the terrorist.
Every year, girls across Georgia become wives and mothers before their 18th birthday. How should the country address underage marriages? Русский
Creating the appearance of stability is the Russian political elite’s primary goal. Yet colonial-like rule over the country’s regions, combined with a lack of civic activity, harms the Kremlin’s legitimacy on the ground. RU
A wave of homophobia in Armenia is playing on pro-Russian and pro-European sympathies. Gender has become geopolitical, and the LGBT community is fearful.
Farm workers in the depths of southern Russia are hardly a protest constituency, but corruption and corporate raids have pushed them to the brink. They may even take their grievances to Moscow — by tractor. Русский
A new type of mass mobilisation on the streets of Ukraine shows how society is being divided along lines all too familiar to EU citizens.
The sentence against Nadiya Savchenko is absurd. Where do we go from here? Русский
The Russian authorities are keeping far too many secrets from citizens. Komanda-29 and its founder Ivan Pavlov are fighting back. Русский
Tajikistan’s government doesn’t hesitate to go after its critics abroad. Intimidation, beatings and murder — this is Central Asia’s authoritarianism without borders.
Defining “political activity” may seem like an academic exercise, but in Russia, it is an existential one.
