To this day, Lenin lies in state on Red Square. There’s still space in the mausoleum for more modern heroes – and their ideas. Русский
A massive new construction project overlooking Georgia’s capital reveals the true extent of an oligarch’s grip on politics — and Tbilisi’s struggle to become a city for all its people.
Amid widespread apathy and corruption, Georgia’s democracy faces all too familiar obstacles.
After ten years as head of Rosatom, Sergey Kirienko is now deputy head of Russia’s Presidential Administration. What will he bring to the job? Русский
In the aftermath of parliamentary elections, can Georgia build a more stable political culture?
In courting the country’s most loathed oligarch, the EU and US will only lose the sympathy of ordinary Moldovans.
For years, Georgia’s politics has been organised around the “search for a saviour”. But now this search has quietly ended, what is left?
A quarter century since the collapse of Soviet rule in Armenia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan, where is the region now and what can come next? RU
Georgia’s church is independent of the state. How long before the state can free itself from the church?
As Azerbaijan votes on constitutional amendments today, let’s not forget the country’s political prisoners.
Sweeping reforms to Russia’s power ministries show that the FSB has the country’s security monopoly in its sights.
The results may be predictable, but Russia’s parliamentary elections hint at the next stage of regime mobilisation.
