Features and Multimedia from the Caucasus

'Berlin Wall's Lessons For Today'

In an op-ed for "USA Today," Jeffrey Gedmin discusses RFE and the role of free media in societies living under repressive regimes. More

Imprisoned Azerbaijani Journalist Honored By CPJ

Jailed Azerbaijani journalist Eynulla Fatullayev is among the winners of the 2009 International Press Freedom Awards, an annual recognition by the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) of journalists working in dangerous or repressive circumstances, RFE/RL's Azerbaijan Service reports. More

Armenia Says No Talks With Turkey Until Protocols OK'd

Armenia's Foreign Ministry has declared that Yerevan and Ankara will hold no further major negotiations until their parliaments ratify bilateral agreements on closer relations, RFE/RL's Armenian Service reports. More

Former Armenian President Rejects Ter-Petrossian's Criticism

Former Armenian President Robert Kocharian has dismissed opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrossian's criticism about his policies on Turkey and Nagorno-Karabakh, RFE/RL's Armenian Service reports. More

Azerbaijani President Criticizes Armenia On Karabakh Talks

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has accused Armenia of delaying efforts to resolve the conflict over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service reports. More

Armenian Prime Minister Joins Ruling Party

Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian has become a member of the governing Republican Party of Armenia (HHK), RFE/RL's Armenian Service reports. More

Georgia Asks Belarus Not To Recognize Ossetia, Abkhazia

Georgia urged fellow former Soviet republic Belarus today not to follow Russia in recognizing the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent states. More

Turkish-Armenian Writer Reports Death Threats

Turkish-Armenian newspaper columnist Sevan Nisanyan says he has received hundreds of deaths threats after altering a famous quote from the founder of modern Turkey to make a case for reforms in the country, RFE/RL's Armenian Service reports. More

Dashnak Genocide Bill Stalls In Armenian Parliament

A key Armenian parliamentary committee has rejected a proposal by the opposition Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) to criminalize public statements denying that the massacres of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey nearly 100 years ago constituted genocide, RFE/RL's Armenian Service reports. More

Baku Official Slams 'Bias' Over Blogger Verdicts

Ali Hasanov, head of the Azerbaijani president's Social and Political Affairs Department, said Azerbaijani law "applies equally to everyone and there is no special treatment for intellectuals and those who are closer to the West, like the bloggers." More

EU, Russia Slide Into Unambitious Summit

An EU-Russia summit in Stockholm is set to be a low-key affair, with neither side holding out hopes of major breakthroughs in a relationship that stalled after the Russian-Georgian war more than a year ago. More