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Occupational therapy: Frozen conflicts, Russian aggression and EU enlargement
European Council on Foreign Relations
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August 4, 2025
Summary Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the EU has offered a membership perspective to Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova. This gives the bloc new potential to resolve or stabilise “frozen conflicts” in eastern candidate states. The breakaway and...
Azerbaijan: A pawn on the West’s chessboard?
Strategic Culture
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July 28, 2025
By alienating Russia, antagonizing Iran, and seeking Western favour, Aliyev is engaging in a high-stakes gamble, Laura Ruggeri writes. Join us on Telegram, Twitter, and VK. Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su In The Grand Chessboard*, Zbigniew...
The Telegraph Hotel Review, Tbilisi, Georgia
The Travel Magazine
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August 4, 2025
12 Tbilisi’s most electrifying new address isn’t just a hotel, it’s a revival. Rising from the bones of the city’s former post and telegraph office, The Telegraph has been reborn as a cultural powerhouse. Its mid-century skeleton has been polished...
Azerbaijan And Georgia Touching On Camaraderie And Alliance (PHOTO)
MENAFN
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July 28, 2025
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 28. Friendly and allied relations between Azerbaijan and Georgia were discussed during today's meeting of members of the Youth and Sports Committee of the Azerbaijani parliament with a delegation...
Georgia DOT executives named to list of 100 most influential women in engineering
Americus Times-Recorder - Georgia
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July 28, 2025
Published 1:21 pm Monday, July 28, 2025 By Georgia Department of Transportation For the eighth consecutive year, Engineering Georgia magazine has named team members from the Georgia Department of Transportation (Georgia DOT) among the “100 Most...
Former Tennessee football coach Derek Dooley announces a 2026 Senate bid in Georgia
Chicago Tribune - Illinois
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August 4, 2025
ATLANTA — Former University of Tennessee football coach Derek Dooley on Monday announced his 2026 Republican bid for the U.S. Senate in Georgia against Democratic incumbent Jon Ossoff. The 57-year-old Dooley is backed by Gov. Brian Kemp and has...
Georgia arrests associates of former Defence Minister Juansher Burchuladze
Open Caucasus Media
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July 28, 2025
Join the voices Aliyev wants to silence. For over eight years, OC Media has worked with fearless journalists from Azerbaijan — some of whom now face decades behind bars — to bring you the stories the regime is afraid will get out. Help us fuel...
Court orders forced psychiatric evaluation of Georgian activist Nino Datashvili
JAMnews
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August 4, 2025
Psychiatric evaluation ordered for Georgian activist The organisation Partnership for Human Rights said on 2 August that prosecutors had requested a psychiatric evaluation of detained activist and teacher Nino Datashvili, and the court approved...
The limits of Russian influence are becoming evident
WorldNetDaily
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August 3, 2025
Vladimir Putin On June 23rd, 2025, Iran’s Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. For Araghchi, the stakes were high. Just a week before, Israel launched a devastating air attack against Iran’s nuclear...
OPINION: Nicaragua Backs Russia’s Landgrabs While Its People Face Repression, Poverty, Hunger
Kyiv Post
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August 3, 2025
Nicaragua has officially recognized the Russian-occupied regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia as integral parts of the Russian Federation – becoming one of the very few countries in the world to openly support Moscow’s illegal...
Azerbaijan’s green energy ambitions signal strategic shift beyond hydrocarbons
AzerNews
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July 25, 2025
Azerbaijan is rapidly transitioning from its traditional reliance on hydrocarbon resources toward becoming a regional leader in green energy. This shift is not only a response to global climate imperatives but also a strategic move to diversify...
Georgia and Azerbaijan education ministers explore cooperation opportunities
News.Az
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Givi Mikanadze, the Georgian Minister of Education, Science, and Youth Affairs, held a working meeting with his Azerbaijani counterpart Emin Amrullayev in Baku to discuss ongoing reforms and explore opportunities for expanding coope ration....
Russia Is Losing Its Near Abroad
Foreign Affairs
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July 24, 2025
Russia’s full-scale war on Ukraine is one piece of a broader campaign to restore a sphere of influence in post-Soviet Eurasia. The 2022 invasion came as a shock to many of Russia’s neighbors in eastern Europe, the South Caucasus, and Central Asia,...
Uzbekistan’s power struggle: Price liberalization, post-socialist legacies, and red flags in the green transition.
Kun.uz
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August 19, 2025
Year after year, citizens across Uzbekistan face recurring power outages that disrupt daily life, strain household routines, and trigger growing public frustration. Once limited to remote or rural areas, these blackouts have increasingly reached...
Slovenia aligns with EU energy diversification goals through Azerbaijan cooperation
AzerNews
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August 2, 2025
Slovenia has voiced strong support for the Black Sea Energy submarine cable project, a strategic initiative to transmit green energy from the South Caucasus to Europe, and is actively exploring opportunities to participate in its implementation....
Armenia and Azerbaijan are trying to mend fences – what does this mean for Russia?
The Conversation
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July 25, 2025
At a time when Vladimir Putin needs friends in his neighbourhood, he appears instead to be losing them in the South Caucasus. After two centuries of Russian involvement in the region, balancing the historical rivalry and at times acting as...
Metsamor could trigger next global nuclear emergency and Armenians denying it
AzerNews
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August 2, 2025
In recent days, several Armenian news channels (websites) have been engaged in a smear campaign, asserting that the Azerbaijani media has "falsely" highlighted the Metsamor nuclear power plant under the guise of "propaganda for the country's...
Orthodox Russia, the centre of world civilisation
PIME AsiaNews
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August 2, 2025
Patriarch Kirill (Gundyaev) of Moscow celebrated the Russian variant of the feast of the Baptism of Kyivan Rus', two weeks after the "Gregorian" date observed by Ukraine, extolling the "Russianness" of the baptismal heritage, but without dwelling...
Batumi hosts Youth Regional Forum 2025
Georgia Online
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July 25, 2025
Batumi, Georgia: The Chairman of the Youth Organization “Georgian Dream”, Giorgi Chakvetadze, took part in the event related to the opening of the forum and addressed the participants of the project. The event will be held on July 24-26, 2025, in...
PM Ali Asadov met with Georgian Minister of Education, Science and Youth
APA
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Prime Minister of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ali Asadov met with Minister of Education, Science and Youth of Georgia Givi Mikanadze on July 25, Press Service of the Cabinet of Ministers told APA. During the meeting, it was noted that...