Georgia (Georgian Republic)
How Western Goods Reach Russia: A Long Line of Trucks Through Georgia
KAZBEGI CHECKPOINT, Georgia — Each day, a caravan of trucks stretches for miles along a mountain highway in Georgia, near the border with Russia. Each day, the line seems to get longer. The trucks wait for days with their cargo — car parts, industrial materials, chemicals, even the paper for tea bags — to cross […]
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Putin’s War in Ukraine Shatters an Illusion in Russia
The last time I was in Russia, the summer of 2015, I came face to face with a contradiction. What if a place was unfree, but also happy? How long could it stay that way? Moscow had blossomed into a beautiful, European city, full of meticulously planted parks, bike lanes and parking spaces. Income for […]
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Russia Is Losing Tens of Thousands of Outward-Looking Young Professionals
YEREVAN, Armenia — At the Lumen cafe in the Armenian capital, Russians arrive as soon as the doors open, ordering specialty coffees, opening up their sleek Apple laptops and trying to navigate a dwindling array of options for starting their lives over. The background music and the sunlit interior are calming counterpoints to the frantic […]
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