September 2007
Thirteen years after declaring independence from Soviet Georgia, Abkhazia is still not recognised as a legitimate state by other countries. Monocle correspondent Shaun Walker reports from this former tourist paradise, still…
October 2007
The Tajik-Afghan border is one of the most dangerous in the world because of its central role in the heroin trade. EU- and US-backed agencies are stepping in to help control the borders and initiate projects to stimulate…
August 2008
When Turkmenistan's President Niyazov died in 2006, it was the end of an eccentric personality cult. His successor promised to open the state up but today the gas-rich nation is still an enigma. Foreign journalists are…
January 2008
Monocle's Africa correspondent Steve Bloomfield and photographer Frédéric Courbet risked imprisonment to go undercover in troubled Zimbabwe, where international journalists are banned. They found a nation on the brink of…
February 2009
"Save the world" is just one of the items on the "to do" list of Denmark's prime minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, this year. And he might just do it. This year he will host COP15, the United Nations Climate Change Confer…
February 2010
On our TV screens, conflict and bloodshed define Israel. But while these images are key to understanding the country, there are many other pictures we never see. In a personal essay, journalist Zed Nelson gives us his view…
May 2009
Estonia is a modern, hi-tech nation facing some old-fashioned problems. In his private offices in Stenbock House in Tallinn, Prime Minister Andrus Ansip talks to editor Andrew Tuck about having Russia as a neighbour, sen…
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