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Khashuri Station in Georgia. Photo: Robin Fabbro/OC Media.

Abkhazia

Is an interconnected Caucasus on the horizon?

by Hamida Giyasbayli

•10 min read

The new status quo in the aftermath of the second Nagorno-Karabakh war has opened new possibilities for regional cooperation. While the three South Caucasian countries are still trying to come to terms with the new reality, their powerful neighbours dream big of new, highly profitable transport corridors of global significance. For three decades, the South Caucasus has been divided by barbed wire, trenches, and the other physical manifestations of mutually disputed and unrecognised lines of di

feminism

Opinion | Feminism in the South Caucasus cannot succeed without queer rights

by Ramil Zamanov

•3 min read

Unless feminism in the South Caucasus becomes more inclusive of queer rights and the rights of those who suffer from many other oppressions it will remain utterly impotent to achieve even its own modest aims. Same-sex relationships have been decriminalised in Azerbaijan and Georgia since 2000 and in Armenia since 2003. This was an important step towards developing queer inclusivity and getting access to the Council of Europe for all three countries. Today, over a decade-and-a-half later, the