Features and Analysis

July 29, 2021

Merab Nadaraya's snail farm in Samegrelo, Western Georgia was the first to start exporting its products to Europe, and today, another 50 farms followed its example

Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

Mother, daughter, soldiers and a flag: video story about an Armenian family from Shushi

Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

July 28, 2021

Narine Avanesyan tells us about the war in Karabakh, how they left the city after it came under Azerbaijani control, about the experiences of their 5-year-old daughter

Armenia

Art of Survival: Armenia's grass-root military training organization

Armenia

July 26, 2021

First established in 2014, the Art of Survival organization became very popular during and after the second Karabakh war of 2020, when many ordinary citizens felt the need to learn how to defend their homeland

Abkhazia

Who is to blame for the ongoing Covid-19 crisis in Abkhazia?

Abkhazia

July 26, 2021

Journalist Maiana Kotova explains why authorities are to blame for the increase in the number of Covid-19 cases in Abkhazia and why she refuses to participate in public fundraising for Covid hospitals

“Neighbors were judging dad for taking us to wrestling” - Female judo coach from Georgia. Video

Georgia

July 24, 2021

Tamar Chantladze is the first female judo coach in Samtskhe-Javakheti. Her club mostly consists of girls

Teen inventor from Georgia designs sensor trash cans for his hometown. Video

Georgia

July 23, 2021

Akaki Tediashvili, a 14-year-old inventor from Georgia, has already designed a mechanism converting laser beams into 3D at the age of 8. Now he is designing sensor trash cans for his home city of Gori

Georgia’s minorities: breaking down barriers to integration

July 19, 2021

As a result of ethno-nationalist tendencies, Georgia’s ethnic minority groups have become alienated from the rest of society, however, their reintegration is crucial for the country's effective state-building

Buy Armenian: A start-up launched during the second Karabakh war

Armenia

July 17, 2021

The Buy Armenian initiative was launched during the second Karabakh war with a single goal of encouraging more people to buy Armenian produce

“Cancer is not a death sentence. I overcame it and live my normal life.” Video story from Yerevan

Armenia

July 08, 2021

The heroine of this video tells us about how she found up about her illness and how early diagnosis saved her

Club stand-up returns to Yerevan

Armenia

July 07, 2021

10 pm. The pub is dark and full of cigarette smoke, all seats are taken. Ani Barseghyan takes the microphone - this is a club stand-up in Yerevan

Pain, suffering and fear - What is the 'Armenian' genetic disease?

Armenia

July 06, 2021

'Armenian' disease or 'Yerevani' and 'periodic' disease is how people refer to a medical condition unique to several nationalities whose ancestors used to live in the Mediterranean region

What are the implications of violent far-right rally that replaced Tbilisi Pride?

LGBT in Caucasus

July 06, 2021

What are the implications of violence and chaos at far-right rally in Tbilisi that replaced Pride's March of Dignity?

Media hunted: Over twenty reporters injured during anti-Pride rally in Tbilisi

LGBT in Caucasus

July 05, 2021

Journalists were attacked at the anti-Tbilisi Pride rally organized by several far-right groups today. Many sustained serious injuries and had to be hospitalized

Abkhazia video blog, ep.2: Streets with no sidewalks

July 05, 2021

Destroyed streets and non-existent sidewalks of Sukhum in the focus of the second episode of Abkhazia video blog with Katya Yenik

Everyone in Azerbaijan complains about air ticket prices

Why do Azerbaijanis complain about air ticket prices?

Azerbaijan

July 03, 2021

It is no secret that tickets from Baku are expensive, regardless of the flight destination. Experts assess the reasons behind such a pricing policy of a state-owned airline

Exploitation of children is a kind of trafficking

Silent violence: why is Armenia keeping quiet about child trafficking?

Armenia

July 03, 2021

The exploitation of children in Armenia is rarely talked about by government officials or local media outlets and most of the cases remain unresolved or identified

Tbilisi Pride week begins with a series of clashes and arrests

LGBT in Caucasus

July 02, 2021

Tbilisi Pride kicks off amid far-right rallies and arrests. On July 1 Tbilisi Pride week was launched with a premiere of the March of Dignity documentary about Georgia's LGBT+ community

Blog: Police baton and memories of the First Nagorno-Karabakh War

Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

June 30, 2021

Armine Martirosyan tells Trajectories project about her police baton and the symbolic role it played in both the first and the second Karabakh wars

Photos in the past and now: paper and digital memory

Armenia

June 30, 2021

Vlogger from Armenia Grigor Harutyunyan visits his grandmother, browses through old photo albums with her and explores people’s attitudes towards photography – in the past and now