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Georgia fines Yandex taxi service for sharing user data with Russia

by OC Media

•1 min read

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

A train yard in Khashuri. Mariam Nikuradze/OC Media.

Armenia

Podcast | Georgia's vanishing suburban trains and Armenia's pricey early military discharge

by OC Media

•1 min read

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

Khashuri Station in Georgia. Photo: Robin Fabbro/OC Media.

Abkhazia

Is an interconnected Caucasus on the horizon?

by Hamida Giyasbayli

•10 min read

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

Daghestan

Daghestani anti-monopoly regulator orders minibus companies to lower prices

by OC Media

•3 min read

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

Georgia

Taxi licensing ‘to become mandatory’ in Georgia

by OC Media

•3 min read

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

Baku-Tbilisi-Kars

Ukraine to send agricultural products to Iran via Georgia and Azerbaijan

by OC Media

•2 min read

Ukraine is to begin transporting agricultural products to Iran by railway, passing through Georgia and Azerbaijan, according to Ukraine’s Minister of Infrastructure, Volodymyr Omelyan. Omelyan, met with a delegation from Iran in Kiev on 19 April, where they reached the agreement. ‘This is a very promising area of cooperation for both countries. Ukraine is developing new international transport corridors in order to become a reliable transit bridge between Europe, Asia and the East’, he re

Chiatura

Chiatura’s cable cars to receive upgrade

by OC Media

•2 min read

Cable cars in the west Georgian mining town of Chiatura will finally be refurbished, for the first time since their construction during soviet times. The government of France is supporting the Georgian government to implement the work. The Ministry of Regional Development and Infrastructure announced on 19 January that work would initially be carried out on the central station, which ferries passengers in three directions, 862 meters to the Sanatorium, 1,081 meters to Naguti Station, and 84