The straw house home to David Chachanidze and Tina Samadashvili is reachable after a two-kilometre hike uphill from the village of Bakurtsikhe, amid the wine country of eastern Georgia’s Kakheti region.

Sporadic clashes and accusations between Azerbaijan and Armenia over their lingering border war have left a question as to whether anything will stop the smouldering conflict. 

Kyrgyzstan's National Security Committee, the GKNB, said that Askar Akayev had been "delivered" to the capital Bishkek.

Askar Akayev was once lauded by Western countries as a democratic outlier in a region of despots and strongmen.

The illicit business has boomed as bicycles become a market increasingly being filled with high-end models costing thousands of Euros.

It seemed that the development of club stand-up in Armenia was postponed indefinitely. In post-war Armenia, no one was in the mood to laugh. However, after the war, about six months later, the stand-up returned.

Until now Russia was dependent on pipelines crossing Ukraine to pump natural gas to Europe, earning Kyiv $2 billion a year.