Pankisi Supplies Conscripts to IS
Georgia’s Pankisi Gorge is once in the public eye. Another two young local Kistians – aged 16 and 18 – (Kistinians are ethnic Chechens have gone to fight in Syria. It’s been a while since the boys disappeared and searches, as it happens, brought no results. One of them later...
Russia and Abkhazia Open New Page in their Relations
In Sochi, on 24 November the presidents of the Russian Federation and Abkhazia Vladimir Putin and Raul Khajimba signed a Treaty between the Russian Federation and Abkhazia on Alliance and Integration. This document was the result of...
Georgian Muslims Talk About Rights Violations
Another ethnic clash took place in the Kakheti region in Georgia. The cause of the conflict is quite common, but the two parties involved are Georgians and Kists, ethnic Chechens living in the notorious Pankisi Gorge. In terms of religion, they are...
The Abkhazia Ordeal as Seen from Tbilisi
The inauguration of Abkhazia's new president, Raul Khajimba, will take place on 25 Sept. As the republic's fourth president, he is well aware of the people's hopes and aspirations and the challenges facing Abkhaz society: creation of a working economic model...
Iraq's Yazidis Choose Georgia
The war in Iraq has resonated in the South Caucasus, as shown by the arrival of the first refugees from the region in Georgia. About 30 Yazidis, including women and children, managed to escape to Turkey and cross the border shared by Turkey and Georgia...
Saakashvili Caught Up in Game of Interpol Chase
Earlier this week, Georgia's Facebook page exploded with reports of the arrest of former President Mikheil Saakashvili on a Greek island, either Santorini or Kos. The revelation coincided with an announcement by the Greek Chief Prosecutor's Office...
Yerevan and Tehran are preparing for a breakthrough
Iran and Armenia will soon start negotiations on a free trade area (FTA. The initiative was suggested by Tehran when its official representative put forward the proposal a few days ago. How realistic is it that this project will...
Raul Khadjimba - the Next Abkhazian President
On Monday, August 25 the Central Electoral Commission of Abkhazia announced the results of the pre-term presidential election held on the previous day. The former head of the KGB of the Republic Raul Khadjimba has won the election...
South Caucasus – from tiltyards to cooperation platforms
The South Caucasus is a region of intertwining transport hubs and energy centres, it is a clashing arena of geopolitical interests of the world's top players, it is a region, torn apart by internal contradictions, with a multitude of problems, but it is also a region with...
Abkhazia’s choice
Elections for the fourth President of the partially recognized Republic of Abkhazia will be held on August 24th. Four candidates are running for the presidential office - all of them former security officials: former head of the KGB...
Nagorno-Karabakh confronting a new war
The situation concerning the unrecognized republic of Nagorno-Karabakh (NKR has escalated to the point where today, in rare unison, Washington, Moscow and Brussels demanded an immediate halt to any action that would lead to a further increase in the tensions...
Delicate Balance of the South Caucasus
South Caucasus has long had a reputation as one of the hottest and most volatile regions. The Nagorno-Karabakh war, the Georgian-Abkhazian, Georgian-South Ossetian, and last but not least, the Russian-Georgian South Ossetia war, convincingly support the validity of this reputation...