JamNews - The national patrol will wear a special uniform equipped with cameras and will be tasked with detaining 'suspicious' foreigners.

The Georgian ultranationalist organization ‘Georgian March’ has come up with a new idea to create a ‘People’s Patrol’ which will monitor the actions of foreign migrants in Georgia.

Tert.am -- The US Congress on Tuesday hosted a reception dedicated to the 23rd anniversary of Nagorno-Karabakh’s independence.

The solemn event was organized by the Armenian Embassy and the Nagorno-Karabakh Permanent representation to the United states, the Armenian National Committee of Armenia (ANCA) and the Armenian Assembly of America.

Hurriyet Daily News -- Azerbaijani authorities have arrested the head of an independent election monitoring group after it criticized presidential polls that secured a new term for strongman Ilham Aliyev, one of his colleagues said Dec. 17.

RFE/RL Caucasus Report -- Russian President Vladimir Putin has accepted the resignation of the president of the Kabardino-Balkaria Republic (KBR), multimillionnaire Arsen Kanokov, the man whom he had named to that post eight years ago. 

Al-Monitor -- What could speak best of a minority’s cultural tragedy? “We are recovering the lost Laz words,” professor Mehmet Bekaroglu, the head of the Laz Institute, told me when I asked him about the cultural revival of the Laz people. Lost words? They are the words that have disappeared from the daily language after decades of disuse.