Today, Eastern Europe remains a region grappling with complex political and historical processes that influence global issues of democracy, freedom, and security. Osteuropa, a German journal and one of the… Read More »Volker Weichsel. “Georgia is Not Lost to Europe”
More than thirty years have passed since the armed conflicts swept the South Caucasus. Amid the dramatic breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, dozens of ethno-political conflicts emerged in… Read More »Waiting for Resettlement – IDPs from Georgia and Azerbaijan
The active arrival of Turkish teachers and professionals working in the field of education to Georgia has been occurring since the end of the last century, when a new type… Read More »Under a foreign sun
Opposition forces disrupt professional activities of a number of media outlets in Yerevan on May 2
At the end of September, Gazeta.ua published an article about ethnic Meskhetian Turks who settled in the village of Glinsk in the Poltava region and are engaged in farming. They call themselves Ahiska Turks. We… Read More »“My wife and five children remained in the basement. They were taken prisoner”: how the Ahiska Turks live, who were expelled from their homelan
By Andrii Vlasenko The viedostory was prepared on December 07, 2021 within the framework of the Berlin School of Journalism project.
Raffi and Yolanta fled from Syria to Armenia to escape the bombing. In Aleppo, they left an apartment and a business – their own factory, which over time was plundered by… Read More »Yolanta and Raffi. The story of Syrian refugees who started a new life in Armenia
As part of a joint special project with the Berlin School of Journalism dedicated to refugees, NV reporter Sasha Gorchinskaya and photographer Natasha Kravchuk traveled to Armenia and found out… Read More »Anita from Aleppo. How ethnic Armenians return to their homeland from Syria 100 years after deportation
Seventy-seven years have passed since Stalin deported the Meskhetians from Western Georgia to Central Asia; since then, they have faced war and displacement multiple times. Despite continued hardship, two communities… Read More »A history of displacement: Meskhetians in Azerbaijan and Ukraine cling to their identity
Ani Manuk fled Iraq for Armenia many years ago. Today she shows us her living room, where she serves guests tea and her son’s pet turtle Godzilla makes its rounds.… Read More »Armenia: How a turtle can make life better
