Abkhazia
Putin signs decree simplifying process for Abkhazians and South Ossetians to become Russian citizens
The majority of Abkhazians and South Ossetians already have Russian citizenship.
Read the latest stories about COVID-19 in the Caucasus:
- Domestic violence and violence against women have increased in Azerbaijan
- Abkhazian health authorities fear ‘drowning’ in COVID-19 cases as thousands of tourists flow in
- Georgians avoided church over Easter and disapproved of communal spoon, survey finds
- Average household income ‘almost halved’ in Georgia during the pandemic
- Analysis | Georgia has a vaccine misinformation problem
- Migrant workers left in Armenia due to COVID-19 face unemployment
- Women are being forced to give birth ‘alone’ in post-lockdown Armenia
- Voice | ‘People should not lose their sense of responsibility’
- Opinion | Azerbaijan’s COVID-19 response: anything but adequate
- Colony 13: Coronavirus in an Azerbaijani prison
- Armenian COVID-19 ‘fake news’ site was funded by US
- ‘A lost year’ — How the global pandemic has hit Azerbaijan’s economy
- Man disappears in Grozny after returning to be with family during pandemic
- Georgian Health Ministry cancels contract for ‘Dutch-made’ tests that were made in China
- Critical shortages‘ of protective equipment reported in Daghestan’s hospitals
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