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Besides social media accounts, ocmedia has populated their site with SUBSCRIBE - 2024 Georgia Election Newsletter, Website, Become a member, Explore oc-media newsletters, Advertise with us, Full time Social Media Manager for Armenia, Vacancy: Georgia Staff Writer, Vacancy: Armenia Staff Writer, Analysis | ‘A strategic partner in the Horn of Africa’: the making of Azerbaijan’s Somalia alliance, Review | Weaving Culture — from Nagorno-Karabakh to Yerevan, knot by knot, UFC fight night in Baku: how Caucasian MMA stardom is reaching new heights, ‘A Soviet-style culture of informants’: how Georgia’s feminists learned to live under siege, Review | The Pear Field — a look at life in Tbilisi’s ‘school for idiots’, How Azerbaijan’s pro-government media made Pashinyan’s victory all about Ilham Aliyev, Review | Barzakh — tracing Grozny’s disappeared, ‘I’m not going to stop the fight’ — 14 detained Georgian protesters released under plea deals, Live updates | Polls open in Armenia in crucial parliamentary elections, Opinion | The silent revolution: What happens when Armenia’s diverging generations meet at the polls?, Azerbaijan’s media apparatus goes all-in for Pashinyan, Opinion | Armenia’s elections are a return of Russia’s 2006 Georgia playbook, Who’s who in Armenia’s 2026 parliamentary elections?, Opinion | Who gets to decide civil society is ‘legitimate’ in Armenia?, Review | Nail in the Boot — Kalatozov’s futile plea to the Soviet authorities, Will Armenia–Azerbaijan peace spell the end of Georgia’s transit monopoly?, Bob Amsterdam: the lawyer behind the opposition party trying to take down Pashinyan, OC Media’s fourth community event!, Spring Flea Market for Sinatle, Buckets, sticks, and stories — Inside Armenia’s woman-led tradition khabukhaz, Criminal cases, insults and claims of foreign control: Armenia’s pre-election campaign heats up, Georgia’s new vineyard rules draw accusations of ‘Soviet-style thinking’ from small producers, Hand-hearts and drum solos — Pashinyan’s populist social media strategy, Review | Small Town of Anara — a subversive Soviet Georgian exploration of drinking culture, When NATO paused its bombs for Kosovo’s Circassians to return home, Azerbaijan prison dispatches: isolation, self-harm, silence — the psychological toll of detention, The ‘Emmanuel’ Political Community summit — or how Macron took Yerevan by storm, How Georgian artist Tedo Rekhviashvili smuggled an Abkhazia piece into Nauru’s Biennale pavilion, Armenia’s election season kicks off with Armenian lessons and heated foreign relations accusations, Review | Adibas — a Georgian war novel without the war, Georgia’s DMD families and their uphill fight for treatment, How an international economic forum highlighted Abkhazia’s dependency on Russia, Georgian Orthodox Church shortlists three candidates for next Patriarch — who are they?, The scarcity of childcare services for children under two in Georgia, How Ossetian Uatsdin became ‘the most successful’ pagan faith in the world, Tbilisi’s ‘fairytale’ Trump Tower — doomed to fail?, ‘He learned to live on his own’: the hidden toll on Georgia’s women protesters, Review | Salt for Svanetia — Kalatozishvili before Kalatozov, Hunting in the Labyrinth: the lasting effects of Azerbaijan’s raid on queer nightlife, Review | In the Mountains. He — a comedic ode to the Caucasus mountains, Chinese-linked Basisbank acquires Georgia’s Liberty Bank, Could Vance’s visit to Armenia and Azerbaijan herald further American weapons deals?, Review | Jocasta: Raw Material — a feminist comparison of two civil wars, After Ilia II’s death, what’s next for the Georgian Orthodox Church?, What recent Baku–Tehran tensions reveal about Iranian Azerbaijan, Is Azerbaijan banning the hijab in public schools?, https://oc-media.org/georgia-to-deport-journalist-afgan-sadigov-to-azerbaijan-following-late-night-arrest/, Georgia to deport Journalist Afgan Sadigov to Azerbaijan following late night arrest, Is the Georgian government secretly killing stray dogs?, Opinion | The risks of Pashinyan’s fear-mongering tactics ahead of Armenia’s elections, What’s behind the mass bird deaths along Azerbaijan’s Caspian shore?, Opinion | ‘A list of rich people in a poor country’ — what Forbes’ top 100 list reveals about Georgia, At the edge of the war, an uneasy calm: dispatches from the Armenia–Iran border, A ripple effect that holds back economic progress — growing up poor in Armenia, How a German-backed university in Georgia launched a Nazi-influenced research centre, Opinion | Reflecting on the complex legacy of Patriarch Ilia II, Is Armenia’s ‘strategic brand’ of democracy at risk?, Review | Thus Spoke the Wind — an Armenian drama that favours art over substance, When the night glows, the Circassian New Year begins, How sexual extortion turns intimacy into terror in Georgia, Obituary | Patriarch Ilia II — the one constant in Georgia’s modern history, Review | A Dog in Georgia — a journey that never finds its way, The carrot and the stick — the reality behind Russia’s attitudes towards Abkhazia, What to know about Georgia’s ‘most dangerous’ legislation yet, Review | Persephone (Where the Light Forgets Me) — the echoing architecture of girlhood, Why Georgia’s most vocal university now faces the biggest cuts, Review | The Cage is Looking for a Bird — a Chechen tale of women’s agency, Opinion | Why Azerbaijan quietly needs Iran’s mullahs it publicly despises, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia tread carefully as Iran conflict explodes, Iranians find refuge in Georgia, despite murky ties with Tehran, Review | Hotel Metalurg — illustrating the loss that never fades, Georgia's new labour laws explained, Is Tbilisi’s stubborn support of Imedi and POSTV a sign of more sanctions to come?, Monstrous costumes and cracking whips — the Georgian village preserving the spirit of Berikaoba, When Eagle Hills comes to town: what its European projects reveal about the risks for Georgia, Georgia’s cinema paradox — acclaimed abroad, yet struggling at home, Review | Self-Portrait Along the Borderline — exploring identity and belonging amidst conflict, French court suspends Georgia’s $383 million payment to company behind Namakhvani HPP, Review | Scary Mother — the horror of a Georgian woman’s intellect, ‘A personal catastrophe’ — Roza Dunaeva on Europe’s deportation of Chechens, How the tragedy of the mandarin mirrors Georgia’s democratic demise, ‘A quiet, creeping Russification’: the displacement of indigenous languages across Russia, Review | Panopticon — coming-of-age in the shadow of the sacred, Review | Ravens Before Noah — a bleak yet poetic look at survivors of the Armenian Genocide, Analysis | Why did Georgia really phase out its public employment programme?, Leaked Russian report details influence strategy for diaspora in South Caucasus, Review | Once Upon a Time There Was a Singing Blackbird — Georgia’s overlooked masterpiece, ‘The state plans to end my life’ — Bahruz Samadov calls for solidarity in prison letter, Opinion | Georgia’s regime has given critics a choice: prison or exile, Georgia’s energy sector is leaking money — into Russian coffers, Review | The Navigator — when GPS becomes your confidant, The Tsova-Tush children’s book aiming to save one of Georgia’s most endangered languages, Living on the edge — residents of Abkhazia’s Gali district fear increasing isolation, What would the collapse of Iran’s regime mean for Armenia and Azerbaijan?, Review | The Pear Field — a look at life in Tbilisi’s ‘school for idiots’, Opinion | Not even Kadyrov’s own children are safe from the impunity they created on the roads, Review | Repentance — an enduring warning about unchecked power, Review | The Door Was Open: Short Stories — unveiling the dark side of Armenian womanhood, Azerbaijan’s attempts to project power abroad places critics under psychological and legal pressure, Breaking the barrel: Armenia’s quiet wine revolution, Review | Nothing Political — theatre in resistance and the anxiety of what remains, Caucasus cinema in 2025 — this year’s top 10 films as reviewed by OC Media, Opinion | Tracing Ivanishvili’s rise to power, Review | Nostalgia — music that interrogates Georgian society, Gohar’s second goodbye: forced to leave Armenia after losing Nagorno-Karabakh, Review | Chiaroscuro: Following the Shadow — watching the filmmaker watch himself, ‘I want to know what happened’ — Georgian protesters on the lingering effects of chemical exposure, Will Abkhazia be able to avoid an energy collapse this winter?, Opinion | How Kadyrov uses the UFC — and its US stars — to normalise his repressive dictatorship, Dancing fabrics and contested poetry: inside Georgia’s resilient animation scene, A mega-mall with few shoppers: the unfulfilled promise of Tbilisi’s Hualing Sea Plaza, A not-so silent night — Tbilisi enters holiday season as protests persist, Review | Pathetic Monologues — Georgian theatre that finally laughs at itself, Review | Parallel Movements — uncovering Paris through the lens of health-driven Georgian migrants, Opinion | Georgia’s new mental health registry is a tool for repression, Husband of Georgia’s US Ambassador linked to Moscow firm aiding sanctioned Russian businesses, Review | Nobody in Sight — one man’s fight with addiction and loneliness in Tbilisi, Opinion | Is Azerbaijan sincere with its peace rhetoric or just bargaining with the West?, How political psychiatry is finding a new life in Georgian propaganda, DataFest Tbilisi cancels planned media participation after pro-government smear, Opinion | Trump once tried to belittle me — a misogyny Ivanishvili and others later embraced, Recent controversies spark concern in Georgia’s booming surrogacy industry, Review | Searching for Satyrus — butterflies, family secrets, and cross-border collaboration, Review | The Harvest — crypto mining in Georgia’s wine region, After a series of controversial projects, Eagle Hills sets its sights on Georgia, Explainer | What is Armenia expected to do on its EU visa-free journey?, Explainer | Why is the Georgian Government comparing protesters to Naruto’s Akatsuki?, Review | Caucasian Blues — a fun romp bringing together Armenians, Azerbaijanis, and Georgians, Opinion | While Azerbaijan praises its ‘family values’, young girls pay the price, Dancing across cultural boundaries: Georgian, Armenian, and Azerbaijani traditions meet at Shin, Opinion | Georgia’s self-avowed liberals undermine themselves by justifying Israeli war crimes, Opinion | Peace promises and the language of hate: Azerbaijan’s double politics, Can China revive Georgia’s long-stalled Anaklia Port, and at what cost?, Review | Temo Re — An artistic yet humorous commentary on Georgian society, Opinion | A year after I ran in Azerbaijan’s rigged election, militarism now shapes politics, ‘Resistance exists only on the roadway’ — protest-related arrests continue in Georgia, Review | Imago — Exploring Chechen identity in Georgia’s Pankisi Valley, Explainer | Have Russia and Azerbaijan buried the hatchet?, Review | Tonratun — A dispatch from a communal Armenian bakery, Opinion | 4 October: an unsuccessful uprising or a trap for Georgian democracy?, Opinion | By imprisoning Abzas Media, Azerbaijan has turned its prisons into newsrooms, In Photos | ‘Letters to the citizens of Georgia’: the newspapers delivered by the mothers of the jailed, London Georgian Film Festival - OC Media, The Azerbaijani activist held as a ‘foreign terrorist fighter’ in a Turkish deportation centre, Breaking the boycott: The opposition candidate vowing to wrest Tbilisi from Ivanishvili’s grip, ‘Sokhumeli Bichi’: Tamada and DillaNext on the unspoken identity of Sukhumian IDPs in Georgia, Adjara’s Islamic heritage forgotten by the state, Review | Do Not Leave the Room — Georgian theatre that dares to speak out, Opinion | Can Azerbaijan really seek peace while it continues to repress its own people?, Review | Shapshe — thoughtful, energetic, and fun Circassian folk music, Opinion | The personalisation of power in Armenia endangers democracy, Review | Venezia — a dark comedy operating as a microcosm of Georgia, Opinion | Sovereignty through defeat: Pashinyan’s reframing of Armenia’s post-2020 reality, Opinion | Why the arrest of women journalists in Azerbaijan is a feminist issue, Review | In Between Dying — a dream of a dream of Azerbaijan, Explainer | Who is Samvel Karapetyan, the Russian–Armenian billionaire whose empire is under siege, ‘They want to believe their sons are heroes’ — the North Caucasus in the shadow of the Ukraine war, Opinion | Georgian Dream’s ghoulish Ukraine ads insult all of Russia’s victims — Georgians included, What’s the significance of the Trump–Aliyev–Pashinyan meeting?, Review | Blue Mountains, or Unbelievable Story — a satirical Georgian masterpiece, The last women performing Zikr in Pankisi — Georgia’s sacred Sufi chants edge toward silence, A list of the Facebook posts that led to fines under Georgia’s ‘government insult ban’, Explainer | What you need to know about the historic Aliyev–Trump–Pashinyan meeting, No More Bazaar — photographer Elene Glonti on the death of Georgia’s street markets, Explainer | Is an Azerbaijan–Israel–US alliance on the cards?, Keeping up with the Kadyrovs: Who’s who in Chechnya’s ruling family, 🎧 PODCAST: The Caucasus Digest, ‘No one will know I did it’ — Azerbaijan turns blind eye to victims of domestic violence, Explainer | What’s behind Armenia’s church-state conflict, Opinion | In Georgia, the EU’s commitment to democracy is being tested — and it may be failing, Donate to Support to Batumelebi, Datablog | Are Georgians becoming more concerned about stray animals?, Kobakhidze says EU threats to revoke visa-free status part of ‘global war party’ and ‘deep state’ conspiracy, Armenian LPG lorries claim Georgians demanding $1,500 bribe to be allowed through border, Ninety Ukrainians now reportedly being held in ‘inhumane’ conditions on Georgian border, Two arrested in Batumi for planning to sell uranium for $3 million, Georgian minister confirms he did not complete PhD following OC Media report, Religious school in Chechnya forced to shut down after underage teacher beat pupils, Datablog | How do Georgians perceive women’s sexual freedom?, Kallas says EU sending letter to Georgia on possible suspension of visa-free travel, Daghestani teen forced to fight in Ukraine and ‘executed’ by superiors, mother claims, Chechen woman to remain in Georgia after foiled abduction attempt by relatives, Exclusive: Georgian education minister did not complete PhD in Netherlands, Armenia places woman and 8-month-child in detention, Suspect detained for attacking man for wearing shorts in Vladikavkaz, Review | Air Blue Silk — a melancholy debut about social alienation in Georgia, Family-friendly policy in Georgia: supporting a compassionate work-life balance, Inside the Pankisi brewery making traditional Chechen fruit-based non-alcoholic beer, Chechnya has the highest divorce rates in Russia in 2025, Review | What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? — A Georgian ode to everyday wonder, Opinion | Solidarity without borders: For Bahruz, for Georgia, for all of us, Review | 5 Days of War — an offensively bad depiction of the August 2008 War, Review | Inner Blooming Springs — A Georgian diary of friendship and resistance, Opinion | As the Church and government clash in Armenia, democracy falls victim, Georgian Dream is watching: how AI-powered surveillance is used against Tbilisi protesters, Review | The Embroidered Kheberi: Adjarian Women’s Heritage — Between Myth and Contemporary, Review | Blueberry Dreams — A contemplative look at the dreams and struggles of a Georgian family, Review | Holy Electricity — a love letter to the inhabitants of Tbilisi, Explainer | The 16 legislative changes that have shaped Georgia’s authoritarian slide, Bacho Jikidze — the Georgian musician whose sharp tongue cuts through systems and melts hearts, Conflicting stories emerge about US diplomatic outreach to Georgia, Moldova extradites Georgian accused of white supremacist terror plot to US, Review | Words of War — A compelling personal story that misses an opportunity to say more, Opinion | Armenia’s conscription reforms codify class division, What to expect from Tbilisi Open Air 2025?, ‘He sold his soul’ — the North Caucasians going to war to make a living, Pashinyan appeals for peace as fears of new war between Armenia and Azerbaijan grow, Did Russian support help Badra Gunba win Abkhazia’s presidential election?, Explainer | The five cases against former President Mikheil Saakashvili, ‘Our voice is heard the loudest from here’: Georgia’s students occupy their universities, OCCRP investigation exposes a ‘scam empire’ of call centres in Georgia, OC Media faces closure after Trump–Musk aid cuts hit $250,000 in funding, In barrage of legislation, Georgian Dream approves new foreign agent law in its first reading, Explainer | One year on in Azerbaijan’s crackdown on independent media, Faith, resistance, and digital advocacy: NIYSO’s role in Chechen activism, A cog in the ‘machine of evil’: ex-TV Imedi employees on working for Georgian Dream’s spin machine, Explainer | Who’s who in Abkhazia’s 2025 presidential elections, Did Hungary help hand Georgian Dream victory in the disputed parliamentary elections?, Opinion | Mzia Amaghlobeli is a political prisoner, ​​Human rights organisation accuses Chechen Akhmat fighters of using mobilised queer men as sex slaves, Deportations from the West: the story of families sent back to Azerbaijan, Deadly Azerbaijan Airlines crash sheds light on twin crises of migrant labour, border closure, Opinion | Chechen women are speaking up, but is anybody listening?, When EU politicians say one thing, Georgian Dream leaders say another, ‘When we get in the minibus, the fun will start’ — How Georgian police torture detained protesters, Economic crisis looms in Abkhazia amid electricity shortages, ban of mandarins, From fireworks to the public sector: Georgian Dream introduces new legislation amid protests, ‘Colour revolutions’, Western meddling, coups — how Russian media is covering Georgia’s election, Abkhazians follow Georgia’s elections closely, but quietly, The ‘Black Garden’ becomes ‘a black corner’ for Nagorno-Karabakh’s Armenians, Who’s who in Georgia’s parliamentary elections?, Bahuz Samadov - Opinions, When advocating for peace becomes treason — the arrest of Bahruz Samadov, No job, no flat: trans people in the margins in Azerbaijan, Opinion | Azerbaijan’s cooling relations with Turkey, Opinion | Georgia’s queerphobic laws are a clear step towards authoritarianism, Opinion | Georgia’s one-sided relationship with China comes with significant risks, Voice | Growing up queer in the North Caucasus, A new wave of queer Georgian film under threat, Power of the people: six years on from Armenia’s Velvet Revolution, Georgian Dream eliminates taxes on offshore assets brought to Georgia, Why is Georgian Dream reviving the foreign agent law?, The disappearing villages of Samtskhe-Javakheti, Mine entrance blocked near Shukruti in renewed protest against Georgian Manganese, ‘Competing to be most pro-Russian’: Abkhazia prepares for Russian presidential elections, A forest in the city centre: rewilding Rustavi, Opinion | Georgia’s minimum wage is stuck in the 90s, Opinion | Russia’s death train rolls through Chechnya and Ingushetia, The fight to save Nagorno-Karabakh’s burns patients, Poison, pills, or poor angles: what’s behind the rumours surrounding Kadyrov’s health?, Editorial | Ilham Aliyev’s attempt to eradicate the free press cannot succeed, Opinion | Fourteen years on Rustaveli Avenue — documenting Georgia’s descent into authoritarianism, OC Media | Who we are.