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Abkhazia: How Storytelling Keeps War Memories Alive

Seventeen-year-old Rustam doesn’t rely on textbooks to learn about one of the most brutal clashes after the breakup of the Soviet Union. Instead, he has a more imme...

Memory

11 October, 2018

The 1992-1993 Abkhaz War: For Young Georgians, Its History Has Begun to Fade

It was a conflict that displaced roughly a quarter of a million people and killed an estimated 10,000-15,000 more,deeply scarring Georgia’s national psyche. Yet, mo...

Memory

27 September, 2018

The Vertigo Effect

Georgians, like people anywhere, can share the same history, walk the same streets and speak the same language, but still live in groups isolated from each other, in diff...

Memory

28 May, 2018

Women's Suffrage: The Armenian Formula

At the turn of the 20th century, the movement calling for women’s right to vote was spreading worldwide, but a young republic in the South Caucasus was already ahea...

Memory

24 May, 2018

Of Bread and Barter: Surviving Georgia’s Food Crisis

With the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, Georgia, like other former Soviet republics, faced economic insecurity, political chaos and rising criminality, but also a mor...

Memory

19 May, 2018

My Garmon

Ten-year-old Sabir has a dream - to become a musician. Born into an Internally Displaced Person family, he has lived in a small self-made house lying between the rai...

Memory

18 May, 2018

The Dagestani Mountains’ Memory

Sandwiched between the rugged, snowy peaks of the Caucasus and the salty waters of the landlocked Caspian Sea, Dagestan is part of the Russian Federation, yet many Russia...

Memory

15 May, 2018

Dzyunashogh: Broken Memories of Azerbaijan

The road to Dzyunashogh is long and rough. The aging memories of the inhabitants of this remote village, nestled in the mountains between Armenia and Georgia, are like th...

Memory

11 May, 2018