At a plenary session, the ruling Georgian Dream party approved in the third reading a bill banning the receipt of foreign grants without government permission. The initiative passed with 82 votes in ...

Today, the newly elected Council of Elders convened its first session in Gyumri, Armenia’s second-largest city, following the recent municipal elections. Communist Party candidate Vardan Ghukasyan was ...

Bahruz Samadov — a PhD student at Charles University in Prague, political scientist and outspoken opponent of war — was arrested in Azerbaijan on charges of treason. On 21 August last year, officers ...

Following the tragic knife attack by a teenager on a traffic police post in Russia‘s Chechen Achkhoy-Martan, a series of harsh and controversial actions ensued: mass detentions, family expulsions, and ...

[…] you (forum participants) visited Khankendi yesterday. This city, which unfortunately for many years — for more than three decades — was a center of Armenian ...

According to a report by Transparency International Georgia (TI), political repression against civil servants has become a key tactic in Georgian Dream’s effort to suppress the protest movement in the ...

The Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association (GYLA) has published a study on systemic problems in the judiciary, concluding that the violation of the right to a fair trial remains a serious issue in ...

The UK has imposed financial sanctions on four more senior members of the Georgian Dream party. All four will have their UK-based assets frozen, and visa restrictions will be applied to them. Quote: ...

Gudkov served in the Soviet security services from 1982 to 1992. From 2001 to 2007, he was a member of the Russian People’s Party, which later merged with the current ruling party United Russia.

Political researcher, anti-war activist, and doctoral candidate at Charles University in Prague, Bahruz Samadov — who is accused of treason in Azerbaijan — has addressed a letter to Armenian Prime ...

The formation of a new government in Abkhazia is dragging on, fuelling numerous rumours and speculations. One such rumour is that former president Aslan Bzhania, who was dismissed in November 2024, ...

The Georgian Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee has approved in the first reading a bill initiated by the ruling Georgian Dream party, which would require government approval — or that of an ...