Russia's influence operations in Georgia represent one of the Black Sea region's most comprehensive hybrid warfare campaigns. The Kremlin has employed ...

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According to de facto South Ossetian authorities, Tatunashvili, 35, was apprehended on February 22 and taken to the main police precinct in Tskhinvali ... s Echo of the Caucasus reports that ...

The Russian-backed Tskhinvali region/South Ossetia and Nicaragua signed a so-called agreement on “mutual elimination of visa formalities for holders of diplomatic, official, service and foreign ...

During the Russian war on Georgia, a column of Russian armoured vehicles is seen on its way to the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali on August 9, 2008. (Photo: AP) Just like the invasion in 2008 ...

Ukrainian officials, including the presidential security adviser, openly called on us to take back Abkhazia and the Tskhinvali region by force. We well remember the statements of the radical ...

It also highlights a broader regional struggle to build and control the transportation routes that will continue to shape the economic and political landscape of the South Caucasus well into the ...

“As you know, only Russia’s allied authoritarian regimes, such as Venezuela and Nicaragua, recognize Abkhazia and the Tskhinvali Region/South Ossetia as independent states. In 2018, Bashar al-Assad ...

Lying in between Russia, Turkey, and Iran, the Caucasus is a politically and ethnically diverse region. In the North are the Russian Republics, which are generally considered part of the Russian ...

We now know that the war was triggered by Saakashvili’s decision to attack the South Ossetian town of Tskhinvali in a doomed attempt to reconquer the province by force, only to provoke a massive ...