The Kadyrov Family
Keeping up with the Kadyrovs: Who’s who in Chechnya’s ruling family
Members of Ramzan Kadyrov’s family, both immediate and distant, have extended their reach into almost every corner of Chechnya’s corridors of power.
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Armenia
Explainer | What’s behind Armenia’s church-state conflict
As Armenia’s government and church clash, a bitter power struggle is unfolding marked by arrests, outrage, and increasingly crass online attacks.
Analysis
Why is Georgian Dream reviving the foreign agent law?
Georgia’s ruling party has promised to pass a controversial ‘foreign agents’ law a year after it was withdrawn following mass street protests. Coming just six months before parliamentary elections, why is the ruling party making such a risky move? On the morning of 3 April, Georgian Dream’s parliamentary leader Mamuka Mdinaradze announced that the government would be bringing back the law — dubbed the ‘Russian law’ by critics — that would target civil society organisations and the media and li
Analysis
Who is Irakli Kobakhidze, Georgia’s next Prime Minister?
Irakli Kobakhidze, one of Georgian Dream’s most outspoken figures who has frontlined the party’s turn from the West and towards greater conservatism, is to become Georgia’s seventh Prime Minister since Georgian Dream took power in 2012. So who is Irakli Kobakhidze? On 1 February, outgoing prime minister Irakli Gharibashvili confirmed rumours that Irakli Kobakhidze, the former parliamentary speaker and current party chair, would be Georgia’s next prime minister. Parliament is expected to confir
