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Open Caucasus Media brings you news, commentary, multimedia, and podcasts from the North and South Caucasus.

Daily Brief

Monday, 30 March 2026

by OC Media

•4 min read

Regional * In Chechnya and Daghestan, a state of emergency has been introduced due to heavy rainfall, downpours in the mountains, and precipitation in the form of rain and wet snow. Local public channels report rockfalls on a federal highway, destruction of homes, damage to bridges, power outages, and restrictions on traffic. Thousands of people have been evacuated due to the flooding of residential buildings. Neighbouring republics have also been affected. A ‘high alert regime’ due to precipi

A view of damaged coal mines in the partially occupied Ukrainian town of Toretsk, the site of heavy battles with the Russian troops in the Donetsk region, in February 2025. For illustrative purposes. (Iryna Rybakova/Ukraine's 93rd Mechanised Brigade via AP).

Georgia

Georgian company to buy sanctioned coal from Russian-occupied Ukraine

by OC Media

•3 min read

Valerian Kochiashvili, the controversial owner of George Oil Ltd., said there were plans for the coal’s domestic usage in Georgia and for export.

Daily Brief

Friday, 27 March 2026

by OC Media

•4 min read

Regional * Aishat Baimuradova, a Chechen woman who was murdered in Yerevan in November, will be laid to rest in Armenia today. Investigative authorities have taken charge of the funeral arrangements, and officials have promised that anyone wishing to attend will be permitted to do so. * Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan claimed yesterday Nagorno-Karabakh’s army did not truly put up a fight against Azerbaijan during the final 2023 offensive, saying that reports to the contrary were ‘not consisten

An officer from the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) in an undated photo. For illustrative purposes. Photo: UNN.

Georgia

Ukraine says Hungarian spy operated undercover in Georgia before working in Ukraine

by OC Media

•2 min read

Ukraine’s Security Service identified the individual as Zoltán Andre.

Daily Brief

Thursday, 26 March 2026

by OC Media

•3 min read

Regional * A Russian train carrying 300 tonnes of humanitarian aid for Iran transited through Azerbaijan. Armenia * Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan addressed the opposition’s suggestion to have guarantors for peace if they come to power following the June parliamentary elections. Mirzoyan said that ‘no one provides guarantees out of sheer goodwill’, instead saying that ‘peace can be maintained as long as it is beneficial to both sides’. * Armenian authorities have conducted searches at a