Sanatorium Tbilisi, Georgia. Inside the central courtyard lies an oasis, encircled by Soviet concrete. Palm trees surround a central fountain, flanked by columns.

https://www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/leisure/sanatorium-tbilisi-tskaltubo-georgia/

#UrbanExploration #Abandoned #Decay #Caucasus #History #AbandonedPlaces #Photography

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#OpenAccess on
#MENAdoc:

"Transkaukasia: Andeutungen über das Familien- und Gemeindeleben und die socialen Verhältnisse einiger Völker zwischen dem Schwarzen und Kaspischen Meere" by August Haxthausen

[Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1856]

http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/100672

#armenia #caucasus

Georgia Commemorates Victims of April 9 Massacre

https://civil.ge/archives/730023?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQPMjc1MjU0NjkyNTk4Mjc5AAEe0jKfend1F09P4TQmSYUz6bDuyrnKLJ-Ac9pcT9gX7wa5ZYfaiM9UdsY91ys_aem_LiF4p0mjfKq_Z8cgdj4OzA

#Georgia #Tbilisi #Caucasus #April9 #9April

The Caucasus countryside nobody's talking about yet 🐄🏔️

Read more: https://flip.it/7_Xm--

#travel #centralasia #caucasus #azerbaijan #wanderlust

East Prigorodny conflict - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Prigorodny_conflict

#til #history #Caucasus #russia

RaiNews: G7, il piano di Tajani: "Nessuna distrazione sull’Ucraina, ma il Golfo è un’emergenza globale"

Dalla ministeriale di Parigi il titolare della Farnesina lancia l'allarme sull'escalation in Medio Oriente: "Effetti dal Caucaso all'Europa". L'Italia spinge per un vertice con i Paesi arabi e conferma il pugno duro contro Mosca e i suoi alleati

G7, Tajani’s plan: “No distractions on Ukraine, but the Gulf is a global emergency.”

From the Paris ministerial, the Foreign Minister launches the alarm about escalation in the Middle East: “Effects from the Caucasus to Europe.” Italy is pushing for a summit with Arab countries and confirms a hardline stance against Moscow and its allies.

#Tajani #Ukraine #Paris #theMiddleEast #Caucasus #Europe #Italy #Moscow

https://www.rainews.it/articoli/2026/03/g7-il-piano-di-tajani-nessuna-distrazione-sullucraina-ma-il-golfo-e-unemergenza-globale-0cc8ec67-71c5-47f2-a7aa-2086a51b5249.html

A blog post for the Medieval Caucasus Network on our recent conference on studying non-elites in medieval Caucasia. It was a fascinating two days - hopefully this gives a flavour of some of those discussions:

https://medievalcaucasus.org/2026/03/studying-non-elites-in-the-medieval-caucasus-reflections/

#medieval #caucasus #history #Georgia #Armenia

From my days of travelling to the Russian #Caucasus, I’ve got quite a few friends there – one of them is a highlander and he’s fine, whilst the other used to work for RIA (Russian state news agency).

I messaged the first one on Telegram, but the message isn’t getting through and I don’t know if he’s up in the mountains or if the Roskomnadzor is already blocking it. So I ask the other one, who spends most of his time in the lowlands, whether Telegram works there without a VPN. And here I get this reply that sounded like read from an official government statement 😂

It depends – sometimes it’s needed, and sometimes it isn’t. On the other hand, the number of cybercrimes and scams on social media has plummeted since communication restrictions were introduced. Everything has its pros and cons.

I gather he’s probably still working at RIA 😂 Let me emphasise – it was the sort of question that calls for a yes or no answer.

If they cut off the internet for them altogether, he’ll probably send me a letter by post giving a detailed explanation of why life without the Internet has “certain disadvantages, but also advantages”.