Georgia's 'vague' gender recognition laws and a Russian customs checkpoint on Lachin corridor
Keti Bakhtadze, a strategic litigation lawyer at WISG, discusses last week's European Court of Human Rights ruling that deemed Georgia's gender recognition legislation to be vague. The complaint was s...
9 Dec 202223min
HIV in Georgia and Nakhchivan's diminishing autonomy
Dustin Gilbreath, a non-resident senior fellow at CRRC Georgia, talks about the prevalence of HIV in Georgia and the stigma surrounding it, and a CRRC Georgia study that suggested that incentivising p...
30 Nov 202222min
Ivanishvili's baobab trees and the CSTO in Yerevan
After Kenya blocked the uprooting and transportation of eight baobab trees to former Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili's Shekvetili Dendrological Park, the Guardian's East Africa global deve...
24 Nov 202220min
The fight for democracy in Azerbaijan and revisiting Chiatura
In this week's episode of the Caucasus Digest, Samir Sultanov, the general secretary of the Azerbaijani Democracy 1918 movement, talks about the arrest of several members of his group and labour movem...
16 Nov 202222min
Ukraine recognises Chechnya's independence and Nagorno-Karabakh gets a new State Minister
In this week's episode of the Caucasus Digest, Tor, a fighter from the Chechen Dzhokhar Dudayev Battalion fighting in Ukraine, phones in to talk about the significance of Ukraine's recognition of Ichk...
9 Nov 202220min
Domestic abuse in the North Caucasus and Stepanakert's mass protest
In this week's episode of the Caucasus Digest, Anna Edgar talks to Svetlana Anokhina, a women's right activist from Daghestan, about the recent escape of four young Daghestani women from a life of dom...
2 Nov 202220min
A deadly case of homophobia in Armenia and Basilashvili's acquittal
In this week's episode of the Caucasus Digest, Anna Edgar talks to Pink Armenia's communications director, Mamikon Hovsepyan, about the suicide of a young queer couple in Armenia. Mariam Nikuradze tal...
26 Okt 202220min
Armenia's future in CSTO and Kaladze under fire
In this week's episode of the Caucasus Digest, Robin Fabbro talks to Yerevan-based political analyst Tigran Grigoryan about Armenia's relations with the CSTO after the two-day war with Azerbaijan in S...
19 Okt 202220min
