Nate Ostiller

3 days 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 days 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’.

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. 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 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. 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.

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. Become a memberIn a video shared by pro-Kremlin journalist Anastasiya Babir on 23 May, Chechen Akhmat special forces commander Apti Alaudinov showcased the new flag of the unit, which combines the Chechen flag, the Russian tricolour, the Islamic crescent, and the Orthodox cross, along with a photo of the late Chechen leader Akhmat Kadyrov.