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The Caucasus, Nicholas Clayton

Everyone Is Lying to You About the Missile Shield. Everyone.

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Return to Abkhazia: Day 4 – Turks, trade and terrorists

Posted 10 months, 1 week ago

Russian Coast Guard sailors practice firing flares in the port of Sokhumi in April 2010

On my second full day in Sokhumi, I wanted to focus less on the political opposition, which dominated my first day in the de facto capital, and more on the increasing Turkish trade and investment in Abkhazia.

So, I wandered down to Sokhumi’s main pier past the crowded tables of old men smoking, drinking Turkish coffee and feverishly playing Backgammon and dominos to the docks. The one fully functional pier in…

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South Caucasus Internet Vulnerable to Shut Down

Posted 8 months, 1 week ago

In recent years, internet security has become an issue of increasing concern for governments around the globe, but in the turbulent South Caucasus, local experts say the threats against both the physical internet infrastructure and cyberattacks against governments and organizations are a reality.

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Why Revolution Could Be, But Won’t Be Coming to the Caucaus: Georgia

Posted 9 months, 3 weeks ago

Misha and the troops (headed for Afghanistan)

Since taking power in 2003 in a revolutionary wave of popular support, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili’s government has faced a number of tests. Following a widely denounced crackdown on peaceful demonstrations in 2007, a disastrous war with Russia in 2008, and months of sit-in protests paralyzing downtown Tbilisi in 2009, Saakashvili appeared to be on his political deathbed. But after a successful campaign in the 2010 local elections, the ruling…

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