Caucasus

Georgia Scraps Food VAT to Help Farmers
Tina Zhvania
18 May 12
Critics say change will do little to bring down prices.
Parviz Amiraliyev and Firdovsi Gasimov are working together to rebuild their homes. (Photo: Seymur Kazimov)
Displaced Azeris Rebuild Lives on Front Line
Seymur Kazimov
5 Apr 12
Government wants people to go back to villages, and helps them raise old homes from ruins.
Renovated airport in Stepanakert. (Photo: Marut Vanyan)
Karabakh Aims for the Sky
Sara Khojoyan
30 Mar 12
Azerbaijani officials insist Armenian-held entity must not reopen airport, and suggest passenger planes flying on “illegal” route might be shot down.
Protestors with a placard showing Alla Jioyeva’s decisive election victory over her rivals in November. She is not among the four candidates standing this time. (Photo: Zarina Sanakoeva)
South Ossetia Heads Into Crucial Vote
Gana Yanovskaya
23 Mar 12
Rerun of presidential election stems from debacle in November.
Khadija Ismailova. (Photo: Shahla Sultanova)
Azeri Journalist Defies Blackmailers
Shahla Sultanova
16 Mar 12
Secret filming and open threats, coinciding with unsubstantiated claims in pro-government papers? The target, Khadija Ismayilova, thinks the trail is pretty clear.
The Putin Club in Yerevan. (Photo: Putin Club)
Derision at "Servile" Putin Fan Club in Armenia
Arpi Harutyunyan
Haykuhi Barseghyan
16 Mar 12
Comic turn, or nefarious plot to project Russian power?
A powerful flood in April 2010 left several families in village of Mleta (Dusheti district) without a home. Officials say they can’t provide new houses for flood victims at the moment and suggest that they stay in a school building in a neighbouring village. (Photo: Giorgi Kupatadze) President Mikhail Saakashvili turns the water on, April 2010. (Photo: TV company Metskhre Talga.) IWPR Armenia event held on 24 November 2010. (Photo: IWPR) Azerbaijani writer Rafiq Tagi, who died on November 23 four days after a brutal knife attack, (Photo: APA news agency) Much of Armenia’s farming sector consists of smallholdings which are especially vulnerable to sudden increases in running costs. (Photo: Anahit Hayrapetyan) Leaders of evangelical churches felt that the round table helped them to bring to the fore concerns over intolerance and discrimination. (Photo: IWPR)
Nairit factory workers protest over non-payment of wages. (Photo: Photolur) Newspapers that have been sued since the libel law reform. (Photo: Karine Ionesyan) (l to r) Alexander-Ahmad with his daughter Hadicha, Fazylo (son of Gennady-Nekmuhammad), Gennady-Nekmuhammad; his daughther Malposha; his wife Havo with their daughter Santimo. (Photo: IWPR) Some refugees complain that the government has not lived up to pledges to ensure decent housing for them. (Photo: Giorgi Kupatadze) House in Gori. (Photo: IWPR) Residents of Kond, a district of Yerevan, are waiting to find out when their homes will be demolished. (Photo: Mary Aleksanyan)