Nate Ostiller

1 week ago | oc-media.org | Nate Ostiller

Join the fight for free media in the Caucasus for as little as €5 and enjoy exclusive benefits from our team as a thank you. We may look back in the future at this time in June 2025 and say that a global conflict, perhaps something like World War III, had already begun. It certainly feels like that these days. Over the past week, a new war — between Israel and Iran — has erupted just neighbouring our region.

3 weeks ago | oc-media.org | Nate Ostiller

Join the fight for free media in the Caucasus for as little as €5 and enjoy exclusive benefits from our team as a thank you. Become a memberThe UN’s General Assembly passed a resolution on Tuesday calling for the right of return for internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Abkhazia and South Ossetia, with a record number of 107 countries voting in favour. Georgia has put forward the resolution at the UN since the August 2008 War, and has seen growing support in the years since.

3 weeks ago | oc-media.org | Nate Ostiller

Join the fight for free media in the Caucasus for as little as €5 and enjoy exclusive benefits from our team as a thank you. Become a memberAbkhazian President Badra Gunba has said that Russia is not planning to construct a ‘military-naval base’ in Ochamchira (Ochamchire), but instead plans to ‘open a technical support base for [Russia’s] Black Sea Fleet’.

4 weeks ago | oc-media.org | Nate Ostiller

Join the fight for free media in the Caucasus for as little as €5 and enjoy exclusive benefits from our team as a thank you. Become a memberUS Senator Steve Daines visited Tbilisi on Friday, where he held high-level talks with Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze, as well as Georgia’s fifth president, Salome Zourabichvili and other opposition figures. It was the highest-level visit from a US politician since the beginning of President Donald Trump’s second term.

1 month ago | oc-media.org | Nate Ostiller

Join the fight for free media in the Caucasus for as little as €5 and enjoy exclusive benefits from our team as a thank you. Become a memberRussian President Vladimir Putin has presented a set of demands to the West in order to end the full-scale war in Ukraine, including a pledge that there will be no enlargement of NATO eastwards, Reuters reported on Wednesday, citing unnamed Russian sources.