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Chechnya

Chechen commander orders captured Chechens in Ukraine to ‘kill themselves’

by Luiza Mchedlishvili

•3 min read

A Chechen special forces commander has dismissed calls for a prisoner swap with Ukraine, and ordered captured Chechen soldiers to kill themselves so that they could end their ‘journey as men’. On 15 September, the commander of the Chechen Akhmat special forces unit and a Russian Major General, Apti Alaudinov, posted a video on his Telegram channel stating that Ukraine could ‘keep’ Chechen soldiers it had captured. In the video, Alaudinov discussed how he had recently received several vide

Bidzina Ivanishvili at the opening ceremony of a new Georgian Dream office and launch of their pre-election campaign. Photo: Georgian Dream.

2008 August War

Anger in Georgia after Ivanishvili vows to apologise to South Ossetians for 2008 War

by OC Media

•5 min read

Georgian Dream founder Bidzina Ivanishvili has promised to ‘apologise’ to South Ossetians for the actions of the previous government during the 2008 August War, prompting anger and condemnation from relatives of soldiers killed during the war. Ivanishvili made his campaign promise during a meeting on Saturday with residents of Gori, a city located around 10 kilometres from South Ossetia. During the 2008 August War, Gori was repeatedly bombed by Russia, in addition to being occupied by Russi

Armenia

Four Armenians killed in Azerbaijani ‘revenge operation’

by Arshaluys Barseghyan

•3 min read

Four Armenian soldiers have been killed in an Azerbaijani ‘revenge operation’, after an Azerbaijani soldier was wounded along the border between the two countries. The incident took place in the south, between the Armenian village of Nerkin Hand and the abandoned Azerbaijani village of Kollugishlag. On Monday evening, Azerbaijan’s Border Service accused an Armenian sniper of firing at an Azerbaijani position near Kollugishlag, wounding one of their soldiers, releasing footage claiming to sho

Abkhazia

Datablog | Young Georgians do not want a military solution in Abkhazia and South Ossetia

by Nino Zubashvili

•4 min read

While the war in Ukraine has raised questions abroad about a potential outbreak of hostilities in Georgia, data shows that Georgians are against any military solution to the conflicts in Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Russia’s war on Ukraine has raised fears in Abkhazia and South Ossetia that military aggression might be expected from Georgia. As Russia mobilised its military along Ukraine’s borders, the de facto authorities in Abkhazia declared military readiness to avoid ‘possible provocation f

Azerbaijan

Broadcasting across the line of conflict, but is anyone listening?

by Ismayil Fataliyev

•5 min read

Broadcasting in Armenian across Nagorno-Karabakh, the Baku-based CBC FM hopes to reach out to the region’s Armenian population in order to ‘integrate’ them into Azerbaijani society. But with its frequent parroting of the Azerbaijani government line, the station’s mission remains questionable. ‘I don’t call them enemies, we are neighbours and must live in peace’, says 59-year-old Gulnara Javadova, who is translating into Armenian a text about the current socio-political situation there after th

Chechnya

Opinion | Ukraine has a duty to remove North Caucasian volunteer fighters from the sanctions list

by Aleks Tor

•3 min read

The North Caucasian volunteer fighters of the Sheikh Mansur battalion risked their lives for Ukraine, but now, without official justification, they are on a sanctions list with uncertain legal status. This must end. Six months have passed since Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed the sanctions list of Ukraine’s Council of National Security and Defence. Unlike previous lists, these sanctions lumped together pro-Russian channels, business owners, international criminals, pro-Russia sep

A personal history of trauma

A personal history of trauma: thirty years of depression

by Larissa Sotieva

•5 min read

This series explores the phenomenon of societal trauma through the personal stories of Armenians and Azerbaijanis, how this trauma manifests, and how it contributes to ongoing conflict dynamics. In the final chapter, a woman displaced by the First Nagorno-Karabakh War tries to come to terms with the personal, emotional scars left by that conflict, and what return to a long-lost home might mean. The woman speaking to me is a teacher. She says she has never followed politics, but in spite of th