Despite a preponderance of data on the high level of financial and environmental risks, the World Bank has opted to become a major financial backer of the Rogun hydropower dam project in Tajikistan, ...
Russia and Kazakhstan are due to expand cooperation on the regulation of non-commercial organization activity, starting on January 1. NGO representatives in Kazakhstan are wary that the bilateral ...
Watchdog groups, including the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), are condemning the prosecution of seven independent journalists in Azerbaijan, characterizing the charges against them as ...
The separatist territory of Abkhazia is fast becoming engulfed in political and economic turmoil. The would-be statelet’s legislature, the epicenter of mass protests in November, is now a crime scene ...
Georgia may be gripped by a major political crisis, but that is hardly a reason to put off Christmas as far as Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze is concerned. Over the past week, the mayor has stubbornly ...