Protests erupt in Azerbaijani village after police car fatally hits 2 children
A police car has hit four schoolchildren in Yalavaj, killing two.
A police car has hit four schoolchildren in Yalavaj, killing two.
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov said that ‘it is time to stop cooperation’ with the organisation.
During the general strike on Wednesday, a group of men, one with a baseball bat, attacked demonstrators.
According to RFE/RL, Amaghlobeli’s sentence was brought to the Court of Appeals on Wednesday.
OC Media’s Yousef Bardouka and Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Goncharenko discuss Ukraine’s recognition of the Circassian Genocide.
Multiple marriages have existed in the North Caucasus for centuries, raising the question, why was a fatwa needed in the first place?
The majority of victims were Azerbaijani citizens going to Russia for work.
Georgia’s protests have been marked by their decentralised nature, with social media platforms leading the charge and acting as the lifelines of the pro-EU and anti-government movement.
Following the mass displacement in 2023, Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians have struggled to preserve their identity, dialect, and culture.
Tbilisi’s techno clubs have taken to the frontlines of the anti-government demonstrations, including enacting a mass strike at the risk of their own livelihoods.
Activists deported back to Azerbaijan are at a constant risk of being detained on drug charges or accused of other criminal acts.
Since July, multiple republics in the North Caucasus have been subjected to multiple drone attacks.
The first all-women Chechen March highlights how Chechen women are forced to live at the intersection of Islamophobia and xenophobia.
Increasing investments in renewables may seem like a positive change, battling the climate crisis and diversifying Azerbaijan’s oil-dependent economy. Yet, without a decrease in fossil fuel investments and renewables mostly exported, there may not be a change after all. Azerbaijan, an authoritarian petro-state, is hosting COP29, the global conference to grapple with the climate crisis. The challenge calls for the phase-out of fossil fuels and the tripling (at least) of renewables by 2030.
Despite verbal support for an independent Chechnya, Ukraine has abandoned Chechen fighters who have been fighting on their side against Russia for a decade. Is Russian cultural influence and propaganda the main reason behind this, and if so, what does it mean for Ukraine’s ability to stand against Russian aggression in general? In October 2022, Ukraine’s parliament recognised the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria as an independent state that is ‘temporarily’ occupied by Russia, and condemned ‘t
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