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Thursday 11 March 2010 13:20

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Stop Elektrozink
03.03.2010   [Tamara Shanaeva]   The citizens of Vladikavkaz are protesting against Elektrozink, a metallurgical factory known for its toxic emissions. Worries for health and environment, though, clash with the difficulties of closing the main plant in the region that gives work to over 2000 people
Immagine: On the walls in Vladikavkaz – Photo by G. Comai

Mr. President’s answers
25.02.2010   [Giorgio Comai]   On 19 February, Ingushetia’s President Yunus-bek Yevkurov held a meeting with local university students. When responding to students’ questions, Yevkurov never tried to deny that this small republic in the Northern Caucasus is stricken with problems. A reportage
Immagine: Yunus-bek Yevkurov (Photo by Giorgio Comai)

De facto cooperation proves to be difficult
15.02.2010   [Gegam Bagdasaryan]   International organisations, both governmental and non-governmental, find it difficult to co-operate with NGOs in Nagorno Karabakh because its de facto independence is not recognised at the international level. These are some of the difficulties facing civil society in a territory not officially recognised
Immagine: Road to Karmir Shuka, Nagorno Karabakh (Łukasz Jabłoński/picasa)

Double standards or fair approach?
10.02.2010   [Arzu Geybullayeva]   Russia and European Union member states have shown different approaches to the South Caucasus. Finding some common ground with Russia might help resolve the conflicts in the region

New year, same old elections
15.01.2010   [Onnik Krikorian]   By-elections in the Armenian capital, Yerevan, show old tactics on the side of the government and a diminishing influence of the opposition in society. The surprise move of Nikol Pashinyan, the increase of voter apathy
Immagine: Yerevan, the Matenadaran (photo Rita Willaert, Flickr)

Voting In Azerbaijan
08.01.2010   [Arzu Geybullayeva]   Local elections in Azerbaijan have been accompanied by allegations of fraud. The limited electoral participation can be explained by the local administrations' lack of real power and the lack of authentic democratic competition
Immagine: Municipal elections (Radio Azadliq)

After the Quake
21.12.2009   [Onnik Krikorian]   Gyumri, the city symbol of the quake that 21 years ago struck Armenia. The stories of the homeless, the domiks, the migrants, waiting for the opening of the borders with Turkey. Reportage
Immagine: A domik in Gyumri (Photo © Onnik Krikorian / Oneworld Multimedia)

IDPs in Azerbaijan
17.12.2009   [Gunel Guliyeva]   The conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh caused the displacement of over 600,000 ethnic Azeris. Some achieved good living standards. But many live in collective accommodations or in dwellings officially owned by other private persons
Immagine: An IDP woman (UNHCR)

Armenia: Pashinyan plans to run for parliament
04.12.2009   [Onnik Krikorian]   Nikol Pashinyan, a 34-year-old opposition newspaper editor currently on trial for allegedly provoking mass riots and defying representatives of state authority, will contest the vote slated for 10 January 2010
Immagine: Nikol Pashinyan (photo Onnik Krikorian)

A web of Peace
27.11.2009   [Onnik Krikorian]   Social media and conflict resolution in the South Caucasus. The opportunities offered to Armenian and Azeri peace activists, the debate in the region
Immagine: (Foto Darren Hester, Flickr)

Andy Garcia plays Saakashvili
26.11.2009   [Tengiz Ablotia]   Film director Renny Harlin started filming his new movie on last August's conflict, in Georgia. Besides the army and aviation, Andy Garcia and Val Kilmer will also take part in the filming
Immagine: Andy Garcia and Mikheil Saakashvili

Grand Finale
17.11.2009   [Arzu Geybullayeva]   Emin and Adnan, two young activist-bloggers earlier detained in Baku, Azerbaijan on charges that many international organizations consider fabricated, were condemned to serve heavy prison terms
Immagine: Adnan Hajizada, Emin Milli (photo OL!)

Azerbaijan, the enduring struggle after 1989
30.10.2009   [Arzu Geybullayeva]   In Azerbaijan, intellectual elites began a long struggle for independence and democracy in the 1970s. This story chronicles Azerbaijan's journey after 1989 through a difficult transition, war, and instability
Immagine: Photo by Fabio della Piazza

In Karabakh everything started in '88
28.10.2009   [Gegam Bagdasaryan]   The slogans of Perestroika, hopes, war. Difficulties and small advantages in creating democratic institutions in a country not recognised on an international level. Twenty years of changes in Stepanakert
Immagine: (cmlburnett/flickr)

Armenia-Turkey protocols signed while critics claim betrayal
21.10.2009   [Onnik Krikorian]   The reactions in Armenia to the signing of the protocols with Turkey. The political scenario, the public debate. A survivor of the 1915 genocide speaks out
Immagine: La manifestazione di venerdì scorso a Yerevan (© Onnik Krikorian)

An Azeri village in Georgia
16.10.2009   [Arzu Geybullayeva]   Our correspondents from Baku and Yerevan, Arzu Geybullayeva and Onnik Krikorian, visited an ethnic Azeri village in Karajala, eastern Georgia. A photo-reportage
Immagine: Matrimonio a Karajala (Onnik Krikorian)

Tbilisi: batons and metal rods
14.10.2009   [Giorgio Comai]   In Georgia, opposition activists are victims of aggression and suffer violent attacks, even at the hands of the police. The government minimises these accusations and speaks of a Georgia which is headed straight on the path toward democracy
Immagine: (G. Comai)

Armenia, perestroika, and cosmic rays
13.10.2009   [Davide Sighele]   Scientific research in independent Armenia after the Cold War and the demise of USSR. An interview with Ashot Chilingarian, director of Yerevan Physics Institute

Between music and poetry
01.10.2009   [Arzu Geybullayeva]   Mugham is a symbol of Azerbaijan's traditional culture. Much more than music played with traditional instruments following a precise style, it is also poetry, inspiration, and improvisation
Immagine: A traditional Mugham trio

Activist under investigation
23.09.2009   [Onnik Krikorian]   Mariam Sukhudyan, a local environmental activist, faces up to 5 years imprisonment after alleging cases of child abuse in a Yerevan boarding school. This seems to be part of a growing trend of governments in the region targeting youth activists
Immagine: Mariam Sukhudyan (Onnik Krikorian)

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