Lezgins are one of five major ethnic groups living within Azerbaijan. They...
10 February, 2015
Women in the Caucasus sometimes have to endure domestic violence to avoid rumour...
4 March, 2015
It is impossible to imagine human life without energy. We all use gas, oil or co...
23 June, 2015
The children’s cemetery in Sumqayit is a dark reminder of the high level o...
20 July, 2015
Sudaba Allahverdiyeva has been growing grapes in Khachmaz for many years,...
18 November, 2015
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the once powerful tea industry of Georgi...
10 December, 2015
Several decades have past since breast cancer has been considered a fatal diseas...
6 March, 2016
While Islam denies any kind of images, images on tombs in Azerbaijan are present...
21 May, 2016
There is a tradition in the South Caucasus for a girl to be a virgin when she ge...
28 May, 2016
What similarities did Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia have in the '90s? This ret...
24 June, 2016
Endemic corruption and human rights abuses are widespread in Azerbaijan, whose a...
9 October, 2016
In his novel Fathers and Sons, Russian writer Ivan Turgenev dissected the growin...
25 February, 2017
Somewhere in the corner of the building, I hear a cry of “Caniva Azzar&rdq...
20 March, 2017
The USSR was rightly called the country of new cities - in its rush to buil...
13 March, 2017
It was freezing - and snowy, icy, foggy. The road to Kandovan was covered...
9 May, 2017
Fifty-seven-year-old small-business owner Djuma Isakov is a man whose language i...
19 May, 2017
“I’ll call ANS TV.” Until a year ago, that was the threat ofte...
17 July, 2017
Orthodox Christian icons are everywhere to be found in Georgia - gazing over the...
19 July, 2017
“Out of my window” explores urban chaos in a yard of Tbilisi from th...
13 February, 2018
Heydar Aliyev’s face and name are seen throughout Azerbaijan -- from billb...
1 June, 2017
Once a year, 83-year-old Azerbaijani Bayram Allazov travels from his house a few...
11 May, 2018
This intimate journey into the life of a 62-year-old ethnic Azerbaijani woman li...
2 August, 2018