Once part of a vital railway linking Armenia and Azerbaijan, the station is now a haunting symbol of fractured regional ties and shifting geopolitics.
There has not been a reliable sea link between the two cities since the War in Abkhazia (1993–1994).
The Personal Data Protection Service of Georgia has fined Ridetech Georgia LLC, the company which provides the Yandex taxi apps, ₾4,000 ($1,500) for sharing the personal information of users and drivers in Georgia with Russia. On Monday, the agency said they had discovered during an inspection that the Yandex GO app for passengers and the Yandex Pro app for drivers connected to servers in Russia as part of the process of verifying users had an internet connection. In doing so, the IP addres
In this week’s episode of the Caucasus Digest, OC Media’s Editor-in-Chief, Robin Fabbro, talks to Mariam Nikuradze about her latest photostory about elektrichkas, or suburban trains, in Georgia. Read More: * In Pictures | Georgia’s shrinking train lines Ani Avetisyan talks about a new bill pushed by the Armenian Ministry of Defense to allow conscripts to avoid military service in exchange for a fee of $61,000. Read More: * Armenian MoD proposes $61,000 fee to
The new status quo in the aftermath of the second Nagorno-Karabakh war has opened new possibilities for regional cooperation. While the three South Caucasian countries are still trying to come to terms with the new reality, their powerful neighbours dream big of new, highly profitable transport corridors of global significance. For three decades, the South Caucasus has been divided by barbed wire, trenches, and the other physical manifestations of mutually disputed and unrecognised lines of di
The Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Republic of Daghestan has ordered six local transport companies to reverse a rise in bus fare. On 26 June, the commission of the Antimonopoly Service ordered the companies to reduce their fares from ₽23 ($0.35) to ₽17 ($0.25). They ruled that the six companies had colluded to simultaneously increase their prices in violation of federal competition laws. An investigation into seven companies was initiated in February after a group of minib
Taxi drivers in Georgia may be required to obtain licenses from local authorities to continue operating, if plans announced by new Mayor of Tbilisi Kakha Kaladze on 24 January go ahead. Kaladze said the Mayor’s Office is drafting a bill to ‘improve taxi services’ in the country, which they will submit to parliament for consideration. The mayor’s proposals have drawn support from figures in government, including the Minister of Infrastructure Zurab Alavidze. ‘Tbilisi’s residents and guests
