politics

The two Putins

The birth year 1950 on Putin’s symbolic gravestone in Tbilisi opens the door to a curious Georgian legend: that Putin was raised in the Georgian village of Metekhi

Carpets flying with a tailwind at the Hungarian Museum of Ethnography

According to the museum’s introduction, the exhibition presents “the rich heritage of Azerbaijani carpet art and its contemporary legacy”

A referendum on the future of the Caucasus. Elections in Armenia

Pashinyan’s political approach essentially argues that Armenia should abandon revisionist logic, accept existing borders, and build peace through economic integration rather than conflict. This would represent a fundamental break with the entire post-Soviet political philosophy of the Caucasus

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