The United States has given Russia the green light to complete its controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. Ukraine, not for the first time, feels let down by its...
Christian Mamo
Christian Mamo is a reporter at Emerging Europe.
Protesters against the construction of a hydroelectric power plant in Georgia’s Rioni Valley have threatened to paralyse the capital of Tbilisi if the...
Throughout the 1990s, the five nations sharing the Caspian Sea unanimously opposed the militarisation of what is the largest inland body of water in the world. However...
Authorities in Belarus look set to use new “anti-Nazi” legislation to intensify their crackdown on independent media and civil society. New and amended laws...
Canada-based mining company Centerra Gold has announced that it will initiate arbitration proceedings against the government of Kyrgyzstan following the latter’s moves...
Disputes over the control of water resources in eastern Kazakhstan have been inflaming tensions with China. The sad fate of the Aral Sea, once the fourth largest lake in...
Azerbaijan is hardly the first country that comes to mind when it comes to cinema, although it does have a cinematic tradition dating back to 1898, when French-Russian...
An underdeveloped local market for IT services has not prevented Belarusian IT firm from becoming enormously successful. Belarus has long been recognised as having one...
A fine of 3.1 billion US dollars imposed by a court in Kyrgyzstan on the operator of the country’s largest gold mine has raised alarm among those who fear it will...
Belarus may have a puritanical president whose increasingly repressive regime tolerates little dissent, but the gamblers who throng from neighbouring countries to its...
Joe Biden’s recent decision to recognise the Armenian genocide has been welcomed by Armenian communities around the world. But what does it imply for the future of US...
The ongoing lack of justice for the 48 people killed in the Ukrainian city of Odesa on May 2, 2014, makes the event perfect ammunition for Russian propaganda. May 2...
