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The tensions between the republic of Azerbaijan and Iranian Azerbaijan are re-emerging in public discourse.
The Caucasus has once again found itself looking on with increasing concern as yet another war has erupted bordering our region. When I started writing this newsletter yesterday, it lead with this line — ‘So far, with the US–Israel war against Iran into its sixth day, there has been no direct spillover effects onto either the South or North Caucasus, besides a relatively modest (as of now) influx of refugees into Armenia and Azerbaijan’. Just one day later, this is no longer the case, as we wat
When I came to Georgia from Kyiv in early February 2022, as warnings were heating up about an impending full-throated Russian invasion, I could not have fathomed it would even begin on the scale it did on 24 February, let alone that it would be still going on four years later. I never did end up going back to my life in Kyiv, apart from a few visits to Ukraine over the past few years, including one in 2025 when I had my first personal experience with a Russian drone and missile attack. There is
The Aliyev regime’s weaponisation of women’s bodies is now being used against them.
