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Voice from Pankisi | From the ‘Pankisi Crisis’ and beyond

Luiza Mutoshvili, 27, Pankisi Valley. ‘Five years ago, I started a job as a teacher at the public school in Duisi, Pankisi Valley, which completely changed my life. The goal of my teaching programme was to overcome the language barrier in regions with ethnic minorities. I’m ethnically Kist myself, and since Georgian is not my native language, I was well familiar with the language barrier problem.’ ‘I started teaching Georgian at the Duisi public school, in the Russian sector. I taught Ge