The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on Tajikistan’s economy has seen more Tajiks than ever before selling up and moving elsewhere: predominantly to Russia. The...
Soso Dzamukashvili
Soso Dzamukashvili is a junior reporter at Emerging Europe.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky promised to curb the power of the country’s oligarchs. However, a new anti-oligarch bill might be more about consolidating...
Pride parades are now commonplace throughout Ukraine, but beyond the rainbow flags the government’s support for the rights of the country’s LGBT+ community...
Once dubbed “metal coffins”, some of Georgia’s most perilous cable cars are getting a facelift. In some of Georgia’s more mountainous towns and...
Azerbaijan wants to make Nagorno-Karabakh a model of sustainability, based on the use of renewable energy and the development of what it calls “smart...
Since taking office in 2016 Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has introduced some encouraging reforms, most notably in cleaning up the country’s cotton industry...
Underneath the streets of Tbilisi lies a network of Soviet-era tunnels, bomb shelters and sinister prisons about which most locals know very little. For much of this...
Leadership is no longer about where somebody is from, but the ability to combine global perspectives with local know-how. In the first few years that followed the fall...
Since the end of last year’s war in Nagorno-Karabakh, both Iran and Turkey have proposed regional cooperation initiatives. These could, however, further undermine...
Solidarity Community is battling to advance the cause of Georgia’s Muslims, and to change public perceptions about a heritage long seen as foreign. Georgia is an...
Handing out passports to Russians living in the occupied territories of Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova offers the Kremlin a convenient excuse to exert further pressure on...
Three decades since declaring independence from the Soviet Union, Kazakhstan is finally about to ditch the Cyrillic alphabet. At the end of January 2021, the Kazakh...
