Political expert Ghia Nodia on the balance of power in Georgian politics today, Saakashvili and Ivanishvili as politicians, and changes in Georgian society and state

What shapes Georgia’s foreign policy and perceptions of its course domestically?

President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria in exile, Akhmed Zakayev, talks to The Ukrainian Week about what Kadyrovites want in the Donbas, the December clashes in Grozny and Makhachkali as an extension of the Russo-Chechen war that has gone on with varying intensity for nearly 25 years now, the illusory friendship of Vladimir Putin and Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, and the coming of ISIL to the Northern Caucasus.

around NATO borders and in Central Asia

The terrorist bombings in Boston on April 15 turned the international spotlight on Russia’s volatile North Caucasus region.

Finnish reporter and writer Anna-Lena Lauren talks about her book and experience in what is considered one of Russia's most troubled regions

Akhmed Zakayev, Premier-in-exile of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, talks about the landscape of power in the Caucasus, terrorist attacks by Russian special services and the West’s despicable “realpolitik”