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Diego Benning Wang explores how Soviet rule transformed Yerevan into a modern Armenian capital by weaving ancient history, national symbols and socialist urban planning into a durable civic identity.

Diego Benning Wang argues that the North Caucasus is difficult to define because its ethnic, linguistic, historical, geographic, and administrative boundaries overlap without ever fully converging.

Diego Benning Wang reviews "Bride and Groom" by Alisa Ganieva - a book about marriage, corruption, radicalism, and constrained freedom in urban Dagestan.

Maya Ivanova reviews Banine’s "Days in the Caucasus", a book about the vanished world of oil-boom Baku before Soviet rule.

Natalia Kopytnik reviews "The Lack of Light" by Nino Haratischwili, a book about friendship, trauma, and coming of age in 1990s Georgia.

Matteo Lotito examines how the Armenian cultural heritage in Nagorno- Karabakh is vanishing and how diplomacy is being built at the expense of memory.

Azerbaijan wants to construct a transport corridor connecting it to Nakhchivan and Turkey, what will this mean for the stability of the region?

Rhiannon Segar: "The benefits of bringing Saakashvili back into Ukrainian politics are yet to clearly materialise".

Katherine Leung reviews the debut novel by Georgian director and filmmaker Nana Ekvtimishvili and is overcome by sadness as she finishes the last pages of a powerful and moving story set in a [...]

As we mark the one-year anniversary of the brutal 44-day war between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh region (known in Armenia as Artsakh), many have reflected on the conflict [...]