How the 2025 U.S. National Security Strategy elevates Azerbaijan as a pivotal partner in the South Caucasus for countering ...

Glaciers in the South Caucasus are melting faster than in almost any other mountain region on Earth, posing a threat to water security and increasing the risk of natural hazards, according to a new ...

The Caucasus region of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia stands at a crossroads. After a deadly conflict erupted between Azerbaijan and Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh last year, the region has been ...

Five months ago, the people of South Ossetia, a Georgian breakaway province, cast votes for their next president. Russia—the territory’s controlling nation—had endorsed a candidate, but the majority ...

Explore the intricate gene-language co-evolution in the Caucasus region, revealing its unique linguistic diversity and history. We analyzed 40 SNP and 19 STR Y-chromosomal markers in a large sample of ...

Timed to coincide with the COP29 climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, the United Nations Environmental Programme issued a report on major environmental challenges in the Caucasus, outlining the ...

Residents of a tiny Russian republic in the North Caucasus are persistently minting cryptocurrencies in defiance of stringent ...

The Caucasus Emirate, a global jihadist organization based in Russia's Caucasus mountain region, functions much like similar groups across the world: it kills civilians and policemen; it attacks ...

As the global LGBT community marks Pride Month, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people face growing, state-sanctioned homophobia and violence in Russia, activists say. In its World Report 2023 ...

Despite the reduction of large-scale military operations 10 years ago in Chechnya, a guerrilla war waged by Islamic fundamentalists rages on, and has brought a striking level of violence and bloody ...

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