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June 28, 2024 Joel Rookwood, _University College Dublin_ Georgia’s football team has surpassed expectations as political turmoil rumbles on at home. May 17, 2024 Natasha Lindstaedt,

_University of Essex_ Georgia seems to be particularly prone to activism, distinguishing it from its neighbours in the Caucasus and Central Asia. November 9, 2023 Anya Free, _Arizona State

University_ and Marat Iliyasov, _George Washington University_ The leader of Chechnya rules with brute force, impunity and near autonomy. Why doesn’t Vladimir Putin rein him in? August 23,

2023 Jean-Paul Michel Larçon, _HEC Paris Business School_ Georgia is a strategic region for the European Union, but if the EU strictly enforces membership requirements, could Tbilisi edge

closer to Moscow? May 24, 2021 Kevork Oskanian, _University of Birmingham_ Facing political turmoil, a weak and unpopular prime minister and indifferent allies in Moscow, Armenia faces an

unpalatable choice. December 23, 2020 Frank Wesselingh, _Utrecht University_ and Matteo Lattuada, _University of Giessen_ Climate change means more water is evaporating than is flowing in.

November 13, 2020 Brian Grodsky, _University of Maryland, Baltimore County_ Each side in the bloody Nagorno-Karabakh conflict accuses the other of war crimes. Such allegations attract

foreign attention and possibly intervention, but rarely lead to a peaceful solution. October 7, 2020 Marzieh Kouhi-Esfahani, _Durham University_ As fighting continues between Armenia and

Azerbaijan over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, neighbouring Iran has offered to mediate. September 29, 2020 Kevork Oskanian, _University of Birmingham_ Renewed conflict over

Nagorno-Karabakh is rooted as much in the past as it is the present. May 31, 2019 Eric Freedman, _Michigan State University_ How does reporting on the environment promote democracy? A US

journalism professor describes conditions in the republic of Georgia, where the media isn’t equipped to cover issues like pollution. August 1, 2017 Philipp Casula, _University of Manchester_

By sending troops from the North Caucasus to Syria, Russia is returning to its old habits. May 30, 2017 Olga Andreevskikh, _University of Leeds_ The Chechen government must be made to

answer for its role in an appalling campaign of anti-gay persecution. April 6, 2017 Mark Youngman, _University of Birmingham_ and Cerwyn Moore, _University of Birmingham_ From the Islamic

State to North Caucasian rebels and far-right nationalists, Russia is facing overlapping extremist threats. April 20, 2016 Kristin M Bakke, _UCL_ and Lee J. M. Seymour, _Université de

Montréal_ After more than 20 years of tenuous ceasefire, Nagorno-Karabakh is once again the centre of a violent conflict. And its people haven’t exactly had their say. April 4, 2016 Kevork

Oskanian, _University of Birmingham_ The Caucasus are more important and more connected today than in the 1990s, and a war between Armenia and Azerbaijan could create chaos for Europe.

February 11, 2016 Marzieh Kouhi-Esfahani, _Durham University_ Russia and Iran have always treated each other well when it suits them, but in hard times, their relationship can get very rocky

indeed. November 25, 2015 Simon Reich, _Rutgers University - Newark_ The downing of Russia’s plane by Turkish military forces over the skies of the Syrian-Turkish border has added yet

another layer of complexity to the vortex of conflict in the Middle East. Most of the… August 28, 2014 Kevork Oskanian, _University of Birmingham_ The world has been brutally reminded of the

unresolved conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, an enclave in the South Caucasus which Armenia and Azerbaijan have locked horns over for more than 25 years. While the… February 12, 2014 Sufian

Zhemukhov, _George Washington University_ and Robert Orrtung, _George Washington University_ The Sochi Olympics shines a spotlight on the forgotten history of the Caucasus, but one group of

people has not made news headlines in the same way as neighbouring Chechnya or Dagestan. The Circassian…