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Vaghazin’s Village School: A Different Frontline

A village of 30 people was not the frontline Veronika Shahnazaryan and Narine Vardanyan had planned for as rookie reporters. Yet when they visited Vaghazin in the summer...

Unseen Borders

26 January, 2018

Abkhazia’s Invisible Children: Life with Down Syndrome

Alisa is five years old, but she doesn’t know it. She cannot say her age as her speech is limited to three words: mama, baba (for babushka or “grandmother&rdq...

Unseen Borders

24 January, 2018

Armenia: War on the Waterfront

Freshwater fishing is not usually the riskiest of occupations. Unless, that is, you’re a fisherman on the Joghaz reservoir, a sort of aquatic buffer between Armenia...

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24 January, 2018

Occupation Line

Since 2008 the Russian military force has occupied the territory of South Ossetia, proclaiming itself a peacekeeper between South Ossetia and Georgia.  While only fo...

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22 January, 2018

Ulyanovka: Living on the Border of Existence

There is no sign to Ulyanovka, an abandoned Pontic Greek village in southern Georgia, 1,300 feet up a mountain near the Armenian border. Only two men – 67-year-old...

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18 January, 2018

Success without Sight: Georgia’s Blind and Vision-Impaired Students

“When we talk about disabilities, we tend to forget blind and visually impaired people as if they don’t exist,” laments Esma Gumberidze, a Tbilisi-based...

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17 January, 2018

Turks and Armenians: Life in the Same Marshrutka

Thirty-nine-year-old Duru Ors is a translator and clarinetist from Izmir, Turkey who hopes music will help her learn more about Armenia, a neighbor with which her homelan...

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16 January, 2018

Azerbaijan’s Missing Men: “Not Found, but Never Forgotten”

Thirty-five-year-old Azerbaijani tractor driver Elshad Alakbarov still remembers the day he lost his father. It was June 15, 1992, amidst full-fledged conflict over nearb...

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12 January, 2018