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OC Reviews: | Small Town of Anara — a subversive Soviet Georgian exploration of drinking culture
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Opinion | Repression and the myth of instability fuels Russia’s colonial rule in the North Caucasus
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Buckets, sticks, and stories — Inside Armenia’s woman-led tradition khabukhaz
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Opinion | Does the concept of ‘peace’ change when the government monopolises the discourse?
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Protesters in Tbilisi rally against police violence on the 563rd consecutive day of protests.
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📽️OC Reviews | I Had A Dream — a personal story about the last speaker of Ubykh
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A French court in Rennes has found nine Azerbaijani citizens guilty of attempting to murder exiled blogger Mahammad Mirzali. The main suspect in the case, Emin Gasimov, was sentenced to 30 years in prison and given a lifetime ban from entering France.
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) projects Georgia’s economic growth will slow to 6.5% this year, down from 7.5% in 2025, according to a statement from the National Bank of Georgia citing an IMF report.
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How Azerbaijan’s pro-government media made Pashinyan’s victory all about Ilham Aliyev.
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On Russia Day, celebrated on Friday, Chechen Head Ramzan Kadyrov’s son Adam received the title of Hero of Chechnya. The medal was presented to him by his father, the Russian state news agency TASS reported.
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David Tarkhan-Mouravi — the leader of the Georgian political party Alliance of Patriots, which has repeatedly called for Georgia’s non-aligned status and rapprochement with Russia — has claimed that the ‘US defeated Russia’ in several areas, including in the Armenian parliamentary elections.
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The Strong Armenia Alliance’s lead candidate, Narek Karapetyan, has announced in a social media video that he was not allowed to cross the Armenia–Georgia land border and had been placed under a travel ban.
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Iran’s Ambassador to Georgia, Ali Moujani, has published a report on his first six months in office, addressing Georgia–Iran relations and the US–Israel war on Iran. In the report, he made several questionable claims, including that Iran has never attacked neighbouring countries ‘throughout its centuries-long history’.
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Russia has imposed further restrictions on the import and transit of Armenian goods. As restrictions continue streaming in, the Armenian government has rolled out a support package for exporters, adding that goods originally intended for Russia and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) had been diverted to the EU.
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Strong Armenia Alliance’s lead candidate Narek Karapetyan has announced in a social media video that he was not allowed to cross the Armenia–Georgia land border today.
Earlier today, the alliance appealed to the Central Election Commission with a request to ‘invalidate’ the results of the parliamentary elections results. In case of lack of a ‘prompt response’, they vowed to apply to the Constitutional Court.
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A French court in Rennes has found nine Azerbaijani citizens guilty of attempting to murder exiled blogger Mahammad Mirzali. The main suspect in the case, Emin Gasimov, was sentenced to 30 years in prison and given a lifetime ban from entering France. The other eight were given smaller sentences ranging from five to 15 years in prison.
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) projects Georgia’s economic growth will slow to 6.5% this year, down from 7.5% in 2025, according to a statement from the National Bank of Georgia citing an IMF report.
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The Cherkessky District Court of Kabarda–Balkaria has sentenced 17 people for policing locals for consuming alcohol or allegedly using drugs.
The case was referred to as the ‘Sharia patrol’ case.
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Plans to change Armenia’s constitution — a precondition for finalising the peace agreement with Azerbaijan — remain uncertain after the ruling Civil Contract party failed to secure a constitutional majority in the 7 June parliamentary elections.
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Russian authorities are discussing measures aimed at adjusting the ‘hierarchy of values’ of the population of the North Caucasus.
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