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Armenia

Opinion | Armenian Georgians working in Russia impedes their integration

by Volodymyr Soboliev

•6 min read

Southern Georgia’s Armenians are not well integrated. That men spend nine months of the year in Russia is a problem — it separates them from the rest of their country. ‘Why don’t you speak Georgian?’ ‘Don’t you live here?’ ‘Aren’t you citizens of Georgia?’ Such questions, with different intonation and different degrees of discontent and disdain, are often asked of Armenians living in Javakheti. Basically, the higher the degree of discontent and disregard in the questioner’s voice, the

Azerbaijan

The invisible — living with disability in Azerbaijan

by Volodymyr Soboliev

•7 min read

People with disability in Azerbaijan are trying to craft normal lives. But their efforts are hampered by badly designed infrastructure, discrimination at every turn, and flawed legislation. [Read in Azerbaijani — Azərbaycan dilində oxuyun] In 2009, when Orkhan Adigozal was 19, he suffered an injury after which he lost the ability to get around on his own. ‘While jumping into a river I lost balance. I hit myself hard. Since then I get around in a wheelchair’, Orkhan tells OC Media. Befor

Armenia

‘If war breaks out again, I will go’ — the polarisation of young Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Georgia

by Gita Elibekyan

•5 min read

Despite Georgia’s attempts to better integrate and include ethnic minorities, young ethnic Armenians and Azerbaijanis in the country are becoming more politically invested in the affairs of Armenia and Azerbaijan than in their Georgian homeland. ‘If war breaks out again, I will go [to war]. There is no difference; I am an ethnic Azerbaijani too. It is not important for me if we live in Georgia or wherever else we go. My brothers are living there, they are in my heart’, young Azerbaija