On Mar. 17, 2023, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Russian president Vladimir Putin accusing him of war crimes involving the abduction and deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia. For months, thousands of Ukrainian children have been ...
Like everything else in the South Caucasus, discourse around Armenia’s nuclear power plant — labeled “one of the most dangerous” in the world — is entangled in a mosaic of geopolitical complexity and conflicting regional interests. As the only country ...
As the Ukraine War drags on, Russian President Vladimir Putin has ominously warned that Russia may shift its nuclear policy to a first-strike strategy rather than a defensive one, effectively introducing a nuclear threat into the conflict. This threat of ...
“He was a source of joy for his entire family and neighborhood. You couldn’t just pass by him and not smile. Everyone in the neighborhood felt the same way. When you saw him, you would burst out laughing. That was ...
What it means to be Black in Russia is an understudied topic. This is primarily due to the fact that the Black population in Russia is minuscule, making up an estimated .03% of the Russian population. In an interview with ...
By Kira Liljegren and Piya Garg Last month, violence erupted along the disputed ⅓ of the Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan border. The recent escalation is yet another chapter in a long history of border conflict between the two countries, whose clashes are generally ...
On Feb. 21, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed his citizens about the “fundamental threats” the west poses with the expansion of NATO to Eastern Europe and Ukraine. Three days later, Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine. What started as ...
As the war in Ukraine ensues, Georgia looks back to its own war with Russia. Although the 2008 Russo-Georgian War lasted only five days, the war and its aftermath impacted the rights of the Georgian people, the sovereignty of the ...
BISHKEK, KYRGYZSTAN – According to World Bank Governance Indicators, since achieving independence in 1991, Kyrgyzstan has consistently ranked in the bottom quarter of all countries in terms of political stability, a fact that is not surprising for a nation that ...
On Feb. 24, Russia launched their highly anticipated, yet much dreaded, invasion of Ukraine. The entire world was quickly brought into the conflict: state governments made calculated promises of aid and commercial companies halted operations in Russia as sanctions were ...