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In an effort to regulate foreign influence in Georgia, the Georgian parliament, People’s Power, as it is called, introduced two bills in late February, “On the registration of foreign agents” and “On the transparency of foreign influence.” People’s Power broke away from the ruling party, Georgian (...)
Baku speaks with one voice in support of the Aliyev regime’s aggressive campaign – but change may be in the air
More than a hundred days into the blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh by Azerbaijani protesters, it’s hard to escape two facts.
Firstly, the protesters, who claim to be environmental (...)
Pushback against ‘foreign agent’ laws in Georgia should not stop us from asking whether countries have a right to limit foreign influence
The spectre of “foreign agent” laws resurfaced in Georgia a few weeks ago.
Georgia, which has long allied with the West against Russia, seemed set on adopting (...)
The war in Ukraine has overshadowed the ongoing battle between Armenia and Azerbaijan. But both conflicts show the Soviet Union is still unraveling — with devastating, bloody consequences.
With the world’s attention focused on the war in Ukraine, another bloody post-Soviet conflict is flying (...)
Azerbaijan, the economy of which is completely based on hydrocarbon production and exportation, and a contributor to global warming which is devastating our planet, a country where the slightest protest movement is repressed by police, is suffocating Karabakh Armenians by organizing a siege (...)
In this report you periodize neoliberal reforms in healthcare into four eras – toying with neoliberalism, militant neoliberalism, soft neoliberalism, and neoliberalism without conviction (current). While the introduction of neoliberal reforms via Shock Therapy, and therefore ‘toying with (...)
Nostalgia for the Soviet era is out of fashion in Azerbaijan, just as it is in the rest of the post-Soviet countries. Looking back at the old days with sympathy is rarely encouraged, if not shunned upon, yet there are still those that do. The authors of this article tried to find out what makes (...)
How has the Russian invasion of Ukraine affected the dynamics of the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan? What choice did the Armenian leadership face? Expert in international law Karl Lebt on the prospects for a Nagorno-Karabakh settlement
It’s been almost two months since the most (...)
An overview of recent labour and social struggles in Azerbaijan.
LE: Could you introduce yourselves: who are you and what are you fighting for?
We are The Worker’s Voice (İşçinin Səsi) collective. The Worker’s Voice is a socialist media outlet that aims to break the bourgeois monopoly over media (...)
In 2020, the Azerbaijani army launched a massive attack on Armenian positions in Nagorno-Karabakh. After 44 days of fighting, Azerbaijan scored a major victory, forcing Armenian forces to retreat from the territories around Karabakh, followed by the deployment of Russian peacekeeping troops. (...)
A paradoxical situation has emerged in the aftermath of the 2020 Second Karabakh War between Armenia and Azerbaijan. On the one hand, while Armenia lost the war, it quite oddly does not seek to avenge its losses. Instead, in its most recent elections, it elected the defeated leader Nikol (...)
Lilit Martirosyan continues to campaign for a hate crime law, legal gender recognition and transgender health care
There has been no legislation passed for LGBTIQ rights in Armenia since leading trans activist Lilit Martirosyan’s historic speech to the National Assembly in 2019 – but, she (...)
Borjomi is one of the country’s few international brands. Now Western sanctions have left it in crisis
The road to the Borjomi factory cuts through a gorge covered with trees.
Outside the factory, in the hot sun, sits Giorgi*. “Please excuse our office”, he jokes, gesturing toward the (...)
Although Georgia differs significantly from Ukraine in size and population, we have much in common. In particular, we are united by the past, as well as the common, albeit different in scale, the experience of invasion by the Russian Federation, respectively — war, destruction, displacement of (...)
A new protest movement over the fate of Nagorno-Karabakh has a lot in common with Armenia’s “old regime”
“The sultan wants to annihilate us / Arise, my child, I beseech you.”
These are the lyrics from a 19th century song that recalls Armenian militia fighting against the mass murders of Armenians (...)
About 400 employees of IDS Borjomi, one of the largest mineral water producers in Georgia, went on strike earlier today demanding reinstatement of 50 coworkers dismissed following the company’s announcement of a “temporary suspension” of production in late April.
A “full-scale, permanent” strike (...)
In an online survey conducted in Azerbaijan last year, shortly after the 2020 Karabakh War, the majority of respondents, 79%, expressed optimism about the future of the country. This dominant public attitude mirrored the ruling elite’s triumphant post-war rhetoric, which promised a new (...)
Now, a year after the war started, and nearly eleven months after it ended, the positions of the conflict sides and influential powers changed dramatically. Yet, the war did not put an end to the conflict; it just transformed it.
Last year, on September 27, Azerbaijani armed forces launched a (...)
Why did Turkey support Azerbaijan in its war effort? Why Turkey continues to impose economic blockade against Armenia from the first day of its independence? Isn’t this the legacy of the 1915 Genocide?
When the second Karabakh war errupted on September 27 last year, with massive Azerbaijani (...)
After last year’s war, hopes that the 2018 revolution will fulfil its promise are fading – but it’s not too late for change
“A stellar performance in one year is no guarantee of future success,” declared The Economist after Armenia held free and fair elections three years ago. The qualified praise (...)
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