Explainers

A horrible message from 2008

Sochi resident sentenced to 7 years for sending a text message shortly before alaunch of hostilities over South Ossetia

Old men in our homes

Pensioners in post-Soviet countries: what their life is like?

Opposition in Abkhazia says, it has been inflicted a major setback

Great commotion in Abkhazia. Details of the Abkhaz opposition leader’s detention by the Russia militia

Georgia, ‘112’ on the line

‘I’m out at the pasture, there is nobody here, and it seems I am dying. Can you hear me’?

What does a student pay for in Armenia?

Until diploma is a subject of merchandise, people will buy diplomas rather than knowledge

Online shopping: 22-year experience

Online shopping has numerous and obvious advantages and very few and minor disadvantages

Can Kyiv overcome corruption?

Ukrainians take a fatalistic stance on the avidity of local officials

What's happening to Lari?

AIDS in Georgia: 10 facts

December 1- world AIDS day. AIDS is not a death sentence

Saakashvili intends to change power in Ukraine

He and his supporters have already left Odessa and are setting up a new party in Kyiv. Videos and photo

Azerbaijani banks: what’s to be expected?

11 banks closed within a year, dollar exchange rate approaching AZN 2 mark

Vacuum

Information vacuum - it’s when Azerbaijanis learn about the developments in their own country from foreign TV channels

When Teresa the cow cries

A cow that is neither the milk, nor the meat

Dagestan Muslims: values and prejudices

The youth is more religious and conservative

Better not get sick

Outpatient clinics in some villages need ‘treatment’ themselves  in order to provide services to people

Georgian schools in Abkhazia: what to do

Opinion: integration into the national educational system is the way out for them, not a disaster

Azerbaijanis are packing their bags

Gays, refugees, oppositionists, students, quite well-off people, all of them suddenly decided that the grass is greener somewhere else

Football-uniting and dividing

Setting up a uniform league for football development in the region