Azerbaijan: Famous Victory for Striking Oil Workers
Azeri oil industry employees secure substantial pay rise following mass industrial action.
Azeri oil industry employees secure substantial pay rise following mass industrial action.
A long-awaited report on the school siege tragedy is critical of the Russian authorities and security forces, but leaves Beslan survivors unsatisfied.
Human rights groups who monitored the ballot suggest that large numbers of voters stayed away.
Despite revisions to the proposed constitution, the opposition is urging voters to reject it – but in the end, low turnout may pose a bigger risk.
Opinion is still divided on whether the opposition can topple the government at the ballot box – and whether the vote will be fair enough to show the true results.
Sex education remains a controversial topic in Kyrgyzstan, where abortion is usually the solution to unwanted pregnancies.
Their conditions of employment seem commendable, but female oil workers say in reality things are very different.
Without the pressures of marriage and motherhood, some disabled women in Dagestan overcome overwhelming prejudice.
Government allegations that ministers were involved in a coup plot suggests that an apparently monolithic ruling elite is in fact fragmented.
As Salome Zourabichvili is dismissed from her ministerial post, observers say the rift is deepening between Georgia’s government and opposition.