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South Ossetia’s youth are striving for opportunities at home and abroad

by Volodymyr Soboliev

•7 min read

Enterprising young people in South Ossetia have lots of ideas for improving their homeland but the challenges are many. Few opportunities to develop a career at home, even fewer opportunities to travel abroad, a lack of cultural and recreational facilities, and a dearth of funding for youth initiatives mean the obstacles can seem insurmountable. Nevertheless, many are willing to try. An often heard complaint among students in South Ossetia is that there’s nowhere for young people to go o

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Georgia’s ‘war against the people’ and the war against a ‘system that stinks’

by Dato Parulava

•9 min read

Georgia, a country where every third prisoner is serving time for drugs, may be about to transform its strict drug policy into a far more liberal system. Activists and reformers are hoping that new legislation could change Georgia’s system away from what they call ‘the war against the people’. On 15 September 2016, a 46-year-old man slashed his own stomach outside the Georgian Government Chancellery, where dozens had gathered to protest the country’s drug policy. He claimed police had terro

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Khadija Ismayilova: Fear reigns in Azerbaijan

by Volodymyr Soboliev

•4 min read

Khadija Ismayilova is not only Azerbaijan’s most famous journalist, but the country’s most famous woman. Her loud and persistent investigations of corrupt dealings in the country, and her publications, in which she names president Ilham Aliyev, members of his family, and other high-ranking officials in connection to those dealings, have not endeared her to the authorities. An entire campaign was waged to discredit Ismayilova with the goal of, she supposes, forcing her to quit her investi