STORIES
Fear
October/November/December 2019
From living with a sense of instability to anxiety over being watched, this edition explores what fills people in the South Caucasus with fear and what they are doing to overcome it
Armenian journalists face new rights, new fears
On the surface, Armenian journalists are enjoying unprecedented freedoms following the 2018 Velvet Revolution. The country's media environment went from being viewed as "...
22 October, 2019
Activism VS Fear
Khatia Akhalaia, 25, is a gender researcher and women’s rights activist. She decided to become a feminist at an early age after facing everyday sexism in her small...
18 October, 2019
Unsafe at home in Azerbaijan
As new buildings started to appear in Baku over the past 20 years like mushrooms growing after rain, the question of safe shelter gained importance.
17 October, 2019
A dangerous romance: A love story becomes a sexual assault
She was 25, living at home, struggling to find her place in her tiny village. He was on Facebook, ready to listen to her needs, her wants, her fears. She spent hours...
15 October, 2019
What will the neighbors say?
Aysel was overcome with the fear that someone would see her out, would catch her speaking to a stranger – a boy – and would start rumors at home that she was...
9 October, 2019
Fear and uncertainty: The life of Georgians in Gali
That is the distance that separates ethnic Georgians living in breakaway Abkhazia from Georgian-controlled territory. It was the distance separating Badri*, 34, from his...
9 October, 2019