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Young Tajiks Leave Eastern Region in Droves
Sadunsho Janobalisho
23 May 12

 

At least a third of young people in Badakhshan, a large but isolated region of southeast Tajikistan, have left to work in Russia or other countries.

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The Forgotten
IWPR
23 May 12
Second World War graves in Mostar abandoned and desecrated.

The Memorial Cemetery for Tito's Partisans in Mostar lies derelict, frequently damaged by vandals.

Hafizullah Gardesh receives his award from SAFMA mission head Zia Bomia. (Photo: IWPR)
IWPR Journalists Recognised at Afghan Awards Ceremony
IWPR Afghanistan
23 May 12
Enforced postponement of event underlines just how dangerous the environment is for reporters.

IWPR’s longstanding editor Hafizullah Gardesh and newer reporter Mina Habib have been lauded for their contributions to Afghan journalism at an awards ceremony in Kabul.

Massive Logging in Afghan East
Fazil Ali Fazil
22 May 12

An IWPR radio reporter talks to people living along the fertile Nangarhar Canal in eastern Afghanistan, where illicit logging is destroying once-productive orchards. 

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Elvis
IWPR
21 May 12
Wartime foundling tries to come to terms with the past.

This film tells the story of a Bosnian Croat woman, Ivanka Sucur, and the baby she adopted after finding him in the window of a bombed shop during the shelling of Hrasnica in 1993.

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The Best Men
IWPR
16 May 12
Some friendships across ethnic divides survived the Bosnian conflict.

This film tells the story of two best friends, Memo, a Bosniak and Gavro, a Serb, who refused to allow the war in Bosnia to destroy their friendship.

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IWPR's Bosnian Films Offer Alternative Vision
Velma Šarić
16 May 12
Schoolchildren too young to remember war admit they are still weighed down with the prejudices of their elders.

High school pupils attending last week’s screening of IWPR’s films in the central Bosnian town of Visoko said the films taught them that religious and ethnic identity should not be an o

The Khurashvili family live in an abandoned bus as they have never found proper accommodation since moving to Georgia in the 1980s. (Photo: Salome Achba)
Meskhetians Struggle to Find Place in Georgia
Salome Achba
15 May 12
Government now facilitating deported ethnic group members’ return, but does little for them when they arrive.

While the Georgian government is fulfilling a pledge to allow the Meskhetians, descendants of an ethnic group deported by Stalin, to settle in the country, rights activists say little effort is bei

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The Mission
IWPR
14 May 12
Go-between passed messages and even helped arrange a marriage in divided Mostar.

Zoran Mandlbaum is a Jew who could have left Mostar during the war, but remained because he wanted to help people on both Bosniak and Croat sides of the divided town.

The opposition Armenian National Congress has complained of fraud and wants the election results to be annulled. Here, a polling station in the village of Mayakovsky, in the centrally-located Kotayq region. (Photo: Anahit Hayrapetyan)
Opposition Alleges Irregularities in Armenian Polls
Gayane Mkrtchyan
11 May 12
Election better run than previous ones, but Armenian National Congress wants results cancelled.

Armenian opposition parties, which collectively polled about a quarter of the vote in the May 6 parliamentary election, have alleged electoral fraud.