Europe & Central Asia

Coding decisions on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, South Ossetia, Abkhazia, and more Published on: | Last updated:  The Central Asia and the Caucasus regions (referred to as CAC collectively) are made up of eight now-independent former Soviet republics spanning across a large area of central Eurasia.…

Coding decisions on security forces, militias, and more Published on: | Last updated:  Background Northern Ireland has a long history of conflict. The most recent violent period is known as ‘the Troubles’, which started in the late 1960s and ended with the 1998 Belfast/Good Friday Agreement.…

Coding decisions on state forces, fatality counts, and more Published on: | Last updated:  Background Prior to the invasion, trench warfare between the Ukrainian armed forces and Russian-led separatists was limited to parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions (also collectively known as the Donbas) after a hot war in the wake of the Euromaidan protest movement in Ukraine in 2013-14, which Russia had framed as a Western-inspired coup d’état and used as a pretext to annex Crimea in March 2014.…