Furthermore, RFE/RL’s Echo of the Caucasus reports that in August 2008, Tatunashvili was serving as part of the Georgian peacekeeping contingent in Iraq, and therefore could not have ...

Nikita Zhuravel, a Russian political prisoner who was beaten by the teenage son of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov while in pretrial detention, has been sentenced to 13 1/2 years in prison on a high ...

Georgia was once seen as a vital island of democracy in the Caucasus. A year ago the European Union still hoped to fasten it to the West, formally recognising it in December 2023 as a candidate ...

Math and science skills among elementary and middle school students across the Caucasus and Central Asia are lagging, according to an international study of trends over the past three decades. The ...

Analyzing economic, political, and security developments in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. Throughout history the South Caucasus has been a fault zone between East and West. It includes majority ...

Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation We document novel evidence that confidence in macrofinancial stability has a positive impact on financial inclusion in CCA ...

The latest episode of The Eurasian Climate Brief delves into the complex narratives and challenges that will define the future of climate action across Eurasia and beyond.

As the trend towards the international dispersion of certain value chain activities produces challenges, discover policies to meet these Tax transparency and international co-operation Enhanced ...

In September 1939, the world witnessed a tragic turn of events as Poland was invaded and subsequently partitioned between two totalitarian regimes: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. This division ...

It covers such cultures, states, and societies as Ancient Mesopotamia, Ancient Israel, Dynastic Egypt, India’s Classical Age, the Dynasties of China, Archaic Greece, the Roman Empire, Islam, Medieval ...

c. 1220-1330s - Mongol invasions and occupations of the Caucasus. 1299-1302 - George V of Georgia defeats the Mongols and restores the Georgian kingdom. After his death, Georgia disintegrates ...