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‘No to the Russian law!’ Georgia protesters demand a ‘European future’

Violence has rocked Tbilisi as angry citizens fear Georgia will fall into ‘enemy hands’.

Georgia protesters

‘Thrown like animals’: Georgians identify victims in Stalin’s mass graves

Under Stalin, thousands were executed. Now, victims’ families and experts are trying to heal a national trauma.

Meri Gonashvili is a forensic anthropologist who identifies victims executed during Stalin’s Great Purges and reunites their remains with their descendants

Death threats for a Stalin vandal prompt soul-searching in Orthodox Georgia

An icon featuring Joseph Stalin on display inside Georgia’s largest cathedral causes a furore.

A boy leans forward to kiss the icon of Saint Matrona featuring Stalin inside Tbilisi's Sameba Cathedral [Al Jazeera]

The war on gender: An unholy east-west crusade

Global web of ultraconservative groups is identified in EU and its fringe working to weaken democracy and human rights.

People attend a rally marking the Day of Family Purity and opposing the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia in Tbilisi

Armenia and Azerbaijan’s new-old border war

Baku and Yerevan again clashed over the control of frontiers defined by Soviet cartographers, raising fears of conflict.

Last year's Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia killed more than 6,000 people on both sides [File: Reuters]

Nagorno-Karabakh: New weapons for an old conflict spell danger

From sophisticated drones to attacks shown on digital billboards, analysts say war has taken on a ‘sci-fi’ effect.

Dozens of civilians and hundreds of soldiers on both sides have been killed in less than a month of fighting [Umit Bektas/Reuters]

Nagorno-Karabakh: Information war and competing media narratives

Human suffering in the conflict is being obscured by Azerbaijani and Armenian officials monopolising the message.

People attend a meeting to recruit military volunteers in Yerevan, Armenia [Melik Baghdasaryan/Photolure/Reuters]

Georgians reviving ancient honey-harvesting tradition

Culture of harvesting honey from wild bees without use of modern box hives is returning to country’s west.

Azerbaijani foreign minister sacked amid tension with Armenia

Azerbaijan and Armenia accuse each other of shelling military positions and villages.

Kyrgyzstan gov’t faces backlash over doctor’s ‘forced confession’

Why a doctor in Kyrgyzstan retracted his criticism of low-quality protective masks amid the coronavirus pandemic.