Caucasus (Russia)

One After Another, Russia Blocks Candidates to Host Next Climate Summit

Because the United Nations requires hosts to be chosen by consensus, next year’s climate summit is mired in wartime political tensions.

In Nagorno-Karabakh, We Just Saw What the World Is About to Become

The conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh is a harbinger of global disorder.

Armenia Finds Itself Cast Adrift in a Tough Neighborhood

While the Caucasus nation might want to reduce its reliance on Russia for a more reliable ally, Western nations have offered moral support but little else.

Who Was Leonardo’s Mother? A Novelist Has Evidence She Was Enslaved.

An author has a theory that the artist’s mother, Caterina, was kidnapped as a girl in the Caucasus area of Central Asia.

A Distracted Russia Is Losing Its Grip on Its Old Soviet Sphere

Russia’s domination of Central Asia and the Caucasus region is unraveling as the Kremlin focuses on the war in Ukraine — and border violence is flaring.