Ulviya Ali, who collaborated with Voice of America for six years, spoke about the organisation’s closure and the growing pressure on media in Azerbaijan. “Since the attacks on various independent ...

“Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev is not interested in signing a peace treaty with Armenia. He prefers to prolong the current state—neither war nor peace. Aliyev agreed to announce that all 17 ...

According to Georgia’s Social Justice Centre (SJC), the freezing of accounts belonging to funds that supported protesters and political prisoners aims to suppress the protest movement and punish those ...

Authorities in Georgia have frozen the funds of organizations that provided financial assistance to fined protesters and political prisoners. Among those affected are the Nanuka Zhorzholiani Fund, as ...

A new amendment to Georgia’s “Law on Broadcasting” will introduce regulations for online media, according to Georgian Dream MP Archil Gorduladze. The SJC predicts that these amendments will be used to ...

Discussions in Abkhazia are ongoing over the Russian Ministry of Justice’s decision to designate Abkhaz journalist and political expert Inal Khashig as a ‘foreign agent.’ This is unprecedented. The ...

According to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) has announced the termination of its federal grant agreement with the outlet. Additionally, on March 16, ...

A Russian tourist was shot in Abkhazia after being confronted about his bare torso, with local authorities allegedly trying to suppress the case as the head of the Gagra district is among the suspects ...

Azerbaijani opposition figures and media representatives have commented on the closure of international organizations and the revocation of accreditation for international media in Azerbaijan.

Subhan Hasanli, in a statement posted on his Facebook page, wrote the following: “The case against me is based on the claim that I signed a service contract with IWPR (Institute for War & Peace ...

Mikheil Saakashvili has been sentenced to 4 years and 6 months in prison for illegally crossing the Georgian border. The verdict was delivered by Judge Mikheil Jinjolia, who applied the principle of ...

Georgian investigative journalists, in collaboration with colleagues from international media, uncovered a fraudulent call center in Georgia that deceitfully tricked people worldwide into handing over ...