Caucasus

Last year, on the edge of Europe, two countries went to war. Not terrorist insurgents, rebels, or “little green men”, but the full military strength of two nation-states pitted against each other [...]

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin is pushing a plan to unify some of the country’s federal subjects, a move that will have great impact on the North Caucasian region and the [...]

It is not a secret that children at a church-run orphanage in Georgia are being subjected to violence and sexual abuse, still there has been little to no reaction from Georgian authorites.

Katherine Leungs explores Jewish Eastern European and Caucasian cooking traditions in a review of Leah Koeing's The Jewish Cookbook.

Tensions are growing on the southern border between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Renée Rippberger takes a closer look at the unfolding events.

Who will win this year's Eurovision Song Contest?

Elodie Phillips digs through the archives of past Eurovision winners in an entertaining review of this bizarre and beautiful non-political political competition.

After the end of the war in Nagorno-Karabakh life in the capital of the region, Stepanakert is slowly getting back to normal. By Alex Figurski.

24 April 2021 will mark the 106th anniversary of the Armenian genocide. To this day, Turkey vehemently denies any responsibility in the mass killing of its Armenian and other minority populations [...]

For the Stepanakert based football team Lernayin Artsakh, last years season was abruptly interrupted by the Nagorno-Karabakh war. For 44 days, the team's players had to change their workout [...]