You are in the midst of completing your Master's thesis or working on your PhD? You are curious about #PechaKucha? You would like to present your social science #research on #EasternEurope, #CentralAsia or the South #Caucasus? Then, this call is for you: https://www.zois-berlin.de/en/about-us/news/pechakucha-night-at-zois-annual-conference

From Danish reporter Rasmus Canbäck

Sep 8
In Goris I am seeing EU observers preparing for a mission, an ICRC car returning from one, an Unicef office in the backround, simultaneously as I speak to Marut Vanyan on the phone.

I watch them all work while Marut says he hasn't found new food for days. #Caucasus #Artsakh #NagornoKarabakh #NagornyKarabakh #ethniccleasing #war ? And the United States does ... what exactly? Express "deep concern"?

https://oc-media.org/shahramanyan-elected-as-president-of-nagorno-karabakh/

Nagorno-Karabakh’s Parliament has elected Samvel Shahramanyan as the region’s new president. Officials have expressed hope that he will be able to achieve a ‘breakthrough’ in the region’s negotiations with #Azerbaijan, which has held Nagorno-Karabakh under blockade for over nine months.

#NagornoKarabakh #Caucasus

https://www.crisisgroup.org/content/nagorno-karabakh-conflict-visual-explainer #Caucasus

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-peace-deal-nagorno-karabakh-azerbaijan-armenia-lachin-corridor-blockade-airlift-hunger-human-rights/ #Caucasus

Gift link: https://wapo.st/44fkLvP #Azerbaijan should reopen the Lachin corridor — and avert another war #Caucasus

Gift link: #HumanRights #selfdetermination #NagornoKarabakh #Artsakh https://wapo.st/45nw06f A humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding in the #Caucasus

Chechen singer Zelimkhan Bakayev, who went missing in 2017, was killed on Ramzan Kadyrov's orders after prolonged torture, says SC SOS

The singer, who flew to Grozny from Moscow, disappeared on August 8, 2017, his disappearance caused a wide resonance, but the republic's authorities refused to investigate the incident, and Ramzan Kadyrov tried to blame his relatives for the singer's murder.

Journalists had previously speculated that the murder could have been related to Bakayev's homosexuality; now human rights activists from the IC SOS have confirmed this version.

«SOTA»: https://t.me/sotaproject/63489
#RussiaIsATerroristState #Chechnya #Homophobia #Terror #Torture #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #HumanRights #Gay #Caucasus #Kavkaz #Media

From the UK defence ministry's def intel update on #Ukraine this morning:

"Military formations drawn from across #Russia are currently bearing the brunt of Ukraine’s counter offensive. In #Zaporizhzhia Oblast, the 58th Combined Arms Army is defending heavily entrenched lines; normally it secures Russia’s volatile #Caucasus region. Around Velyka #Novosilka, the 5th Combined Arms Army and Naval Infantry hold the front; they are routinely based 7000km away as a balance to Chinese power." (Cont.)

#Elbrus #sunrise #timelapse

#Caucasus #travel #mountains

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfY20sSqQsw

#Elbrus #sunrise #timelapse

#Caucasus #travel #mountains

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#Elbrus #sunrise #timelapse

#Caucasus #travel #mountains

https://youtu.be/dfY20sSqQsw

RT Free Nations of PostRussia Forum
👇Our own production video(English subtitles) about #Siberia🔥
United States of Siberia(#SiberianConfederation) will be free and independent💯
p.s.also in this video cycle: #Bashkortostan & #Caucasus + next video(in 1-2 months) - about #Ingria
#PostRussia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frmMLdTCcT8

es sieht nicht gut aus, für Georgien
https://taz.de/Russischer-Einfluss-in-Georgien/!5935536/

#Georgien #Tbilisi #Caucasus #PutinsGier

*habe noch nirgends so auffällig viele EU Fahnen im Wind flattern gesehen, als bei meinen Besuchen in Georgien
🇪🇺

RT Council of United Circassia
We are in Kyiv to declare our national goals, assesments and objections about Circassia at the conference for the 105th Aniversary of the independence of Mountain Republic.

We will continue to defend Circassians' political rights.

#Ukraine #Kyiv #Circassia #Caucasus #Russia

According to a 2023 report by Freedom House, the level of democracy in #Georgia has fallen to 34%, the lowest level in a decade
https://jam-news.net/freedom-house-on-democracy-in-georgia/
#freedomhouse
#Caucasus

"In the #Caucasus, geopolitics, economics and security concerns trump religion as the key factors shaping state policies." https://www.clingendael.org/pub/2023/the-eu-in-the-south-caucasus/1-the-geopolitical-gordian-knot-of-the-south-caucasus/#dynamic-3-imported-geopolitical-tensions-from-the-middle-east

Fascinating survey, showing that oppositional political engagement (both before and after fleeing Russia) is significantly higher among Russian emigres in Armenia than Georgia.

#caucasus #migration

https://www.zois-berlin.de/en/publications/zois-report/russians-in-the-south-caucasus-political-attitudes-and-the-war-in-ukraine

“The majority of the Russians arriving don’t know where they are and how they are viewed as Russians here, due to the historical context"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/02/they-dont-know-how-they-are-viewed-here-russians-in-georgia-revive-old-tension

#Tbilisi #Georgia #Caucasus #russians

interesting read

RT @LinserStefanie
Happy to see that the final report of one of my most interesting projects in the #Caucasus & #CentralAsia is now published by @UNECEForests https://unece.org/forests/publications/reporting-forests-and-sustainable-forest-management-caucasus-and-central-asia incl. policy briefs on C&I aspects by @BirkBastrup @AndrzejTalarcz1 @KariTKorhonen, M. Köhl, M. Gaworska & myself