In today’s episode host Alex Petriashvili sits down with Irina Arabidze, Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), for discussing the strategic imperatives and transatlantic tensions laid bare by the latest U.S. National Security Strategy. The conversation dissects critical questions: Is long-standing U.S. frustration over perceived European “free-riding” now translating into deliberate…
Post-Soviet Conflicts Watch provides an overview of ongoing conflicts and post-conflict processes throughout the post-Soviet space. The document analyzes key events and trends in the Russian-occupied regions of Georgia—specifically, Abkhazia and the Tskhinvali region; as well as in the breakaway region of Transnistria and the autonomous entity of Gagauzia. It also covers other areas within…
Armenia’s Foreign Policy Meeting of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan with the U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Allison Hooker, on November 17, 2025, in Yerevan. After the meeting, Hooker remarked that she and her hosts had discussed strengthening the strategic partnership between the two countries and the Trump Roadmap for International Peace…
The digest covers China’s political, diplomatic, economic, and other activities in the South Caucasus region and relations between China and the South Caucasus countries. It relies on a wide variety of sources, including the Chinese media. It is worth noting that the Chinese media is controlled by the Chinese Communist Party (according to the World…
Главной новостью этой недели стала публикация расследования BBC, в которой высказывалось предположение, что для разгона протестов в Грузии использовалось ядовитое вещество времен Первой мировой войны – камит. Достаточно нейтральный обзор расследования приводит издание «Газета.ру»: там, в частности, сообщается, что в его основе лежали наблюдения доктора Чахунашвили, что тому удалось опросить 350 человек, участвовавших в протестах,…
The digest covers China’s political, diplomatic, economic, and other activities in the South Caucasus region and relations between China and the South Caucasus countries. It relies on a wide variety of sources, including the Chinese media. It is worth noting that the Chinese media is controlled by the Chinese Communist Party (according to the World…
Russia recognized the independence of Georgia’s separatist regions of Abkhazia and so-called South Ossetia shortly after the 2008 Russo-Georgian War, and established diplomatic relations with them. As of 2025, the Russian Federation has concluded over 200 agreements with occupied Abkhazia and over 100 agreements with the occupied Tskhinvali region (so-called Republic of South Ossetia), covering…
The digest covers China’s political, diplomatic, economic, and other activities in the South Caucasus region and relations between China and the South Caucasus countries. It relies on a wide variety of sources, including the Chinese media. It is worth noting that the Chinese media is controlled by the Chinese Communist Party (according to the World…
Occupied Abkhazia Reconstruction of the Kodori Tunnel As of 2025, construction works have been underway on a tunnel linking Abkhazia to the Kodori Gorge. The tunnel sits on the only road leading to the village of Lata that is accessible to vehicles. Until 2008, the contact line between separatist and Georgian central government forces ran…