Air and ground attacks kill dozens across besieged enclave as US adviser Jake Sullivan holds talks with Israeli leaders.

• May 20, 2024

Lai’s election victory gave an unprecedented third presidential term to the DPP, but his room for manoeuvre is likely to be limited.

• May 20, 2024

President Salome Zourabichvili says the law is ‘Russian in its essence’, but parliament is expected to overturn veto.

• May 20, 2024

Freezing hundreds of billions of dollars in lenders’ assets was part of dispute over gas project halted by sanctions.

• May 20, 2024

The ‘Russia law’ will make it hard for Georgia to join European Union, argue protesters, the US and Baltic states.

• May 15, 2024

Donald Trump and Joe Biden trade barbs on social media as the rivals agree to two debates ahead of November’s election.

• May 15, 2024

UN officials and rights groups warn hundreds of thousands of civilians are at risk amid heavy fighting in el-Fasher.

• May 15, 2024

By Benyamin POGHOSYAN, PhD, Chairman, Center for Political and Economic Strategic Studies

As the global order continues to morph into a more complex architecture with an array of global and regional powers, the geopolitical future of the South Caucasus hangs in the balance. The tectonic changes in the region of the last four years – the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, the regional implications of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the military takeover of Nagorno-Karabakh by Azerbaijan, and forced displacement of Armenians, the EU candidate status for Georgia and Georgia’s quest for multi-vector foreign policy including the establishment of strategic partnership with China, the limbo in Armenia–Azerbaijan negotiations, growing assertiveness of Azerbaijan and eventual move of Armenia towards closer cooperation with the EU and the US – all make the situation quite complex. READ MORE

• May 14, 2024