Yousef Bardouka

2 weeks ago | oc-media.org | Tamar Shvelidze |Yousef Bardouka |Mikheil Gvadzabia |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 memberKnown initially for political and social commentary, their music has gradually evolved into a sensual, dreamy post-punk with addictive dance rhythms. Eko & Vinda Folio is a Georgian post-punk duo formed in 2012 by Erekle Deisadze and Temo Ezugbaia.

2 weeks ago | oc-media.org | Mikheil Gvadzabia |Yousef Bardouka |Nate Ostiller |Aytan Farhadova

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 Become a memberThe Georgian government has withdrawn Zurab Pololikashvili’s candidacy for the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) Secretary-General, backing the UAE’s nominee instead.

3 weeks ago | oc-media.org | Nate Ostiller |Xandie Kuenning |Arshaluys Barseghyan |Yousef Bardouka

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 memberThroughout the course of a brief, but violent, conflict between India and Pakistan that erupted over the past week, Armenia and Azerbaijan also engaged in a simultaneous proxy information war, as both Yerevan and Baku used the outbreak of violence as an opportunity to explicitly take sides.

3 weeks ago | oc-media.org | Nate Ostiller |Mikheil Gvadzabia |Yousef Bardouka |Lily Samarine

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 memberFormer Georgian Defence Minister Irakli Okruashvili has been remanded into police custody for failing to pay bail after refusing to attend the government’s commission formed to investigate the alleged crimes of the former ruling United National Movement (UNM) party.

3 weeks ago | oc-media.org | Mikheil Gvadzabia |Nate Ostiller |Yousef Bardouka |Lily Samarine

Amidst the current global turmoil, small news outlets like ours could be the first to close. Help us get off grants and become the first reader-funded news site in the Caucasus, and keep telling the stories that matter. Become a memberThe ruling Georgian Dream party and its satellites have passed a legislative package on banning political parties in its final reading in parliament.