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Georgia is the latest country among several former Soviet states to get into a new political crisis. It is hardly surprising to see that political turmoils in the Black Sea and Caucasian region have an inevitable Russian shadow over them. The basic reason for this instability being Moscow’s rise as a superpower once again and [...]

It is a near criminal offense to tie up disabled persons, especially children in their cribs to prevent self-inflicting injuries. But, this is a common occurrence in Serbian psychiatric units. Years of civil wars across the region since the 1990s have made Serbia (formerly Yugoslavia) struggle for economic recovery. The report by the US-based human [...]

Outgoing Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned the West of threatening Russia’s security by unleashing a new arms race and that Moscow has no other choice but to retaliate in kind. In one of his last nationwide addresses, the Russian strongman has pointed out NATO’s expansion close to the Russian borders and US plans to [...]

South Ossetia, a region which is legally a part of Georgia, is almost fully under the control of separatist groups that want to cede from Georgia and join the Russian region of North Ossetia. The nights here regularly see intermittent gun and mortar fire between the official Georgian forces and the armed separatist groups. South [...]

Most Western powers have been skeptical about the way Russian elections are held and the new government was seen as a body that is under the shadow of Vladimir Putin. Not surprisingly, the Medvedev government, which revealed the future foreign policies of the Russian government, seems not to deviate from the earlier acrimonious policies set [...]