The international rights group said workers’ lives were being put at risk in order to meet production quotas.
Anti-Semitic statement by Kadyrov provokes anger amoung Russian-Israeli Jews
In a speech to a visiting delegation from Jordan, Kadyrov said the Jewish people were ‘the main enemies of Islam’.
Georgia offers older school teachers redundancy in education shake-up
Elderly teachers offered a generous retirement package as part of controversial new reforms by Georgia’s Education Ministry.
In pictures | Rustavi: The city of factories
Rustavi’s factories have led to ‘alarming’ levels of air pollution in the city — local activists, backed by the city council, are getting fed up.
Voice | ‘What I hate the most is the injustice of it’
Supermarket cashier Mako Gomuri, 20, is one of several people to lose an eye on 20 June during anti-Russia protests in Tbilisi.
Opinion | For all that divides us, music brings us together
Music has for centuries brought Armenians and Azerbaijanis together in a way that may once again offer us a way forward.
Father of Georgia’s TV Pirveli owner charged with money laundering
Fears grow over a clampdown on media a year before the parliamentary elections.
Communist Party holds protests for ‘fair elections’ in Kabardino-Balkaria
The local communists held rallies in Nalchik and Prokhladnoye as part of a nationwide campaign.
Rustavi 2 fires head of news and says more journalists to be let go
Nodar Meladze, and four prominent journalists at the channel will be dismissed.
Azerbaijani football commentator suspended over racist remark against Chelsea’s N'Golo Kante
Commentator Ismayil Abdullayev was suspended for making a racist remark about Chelsea midfielder N'Golo Kante.
Feature Stories
Georgia offers older school teachers redundancy in education shake-up
Elderly teachers offered a generous retirement package as part of controversial new reforms by Georgia’s Education Ministry.
Kutaisi’s broken dreams: the fate of Georgia’s abandoned parliament
The newly created ‘Leave Parliament in Kutaisi’ group is fighting to have the Georgian parliament returned to the west-Georgian city.
A Chechen refugee Poland wants to give up to Russia
Execution, murder, abduction, rape, torture, intimidation — this is the possible fate of a Chechen refugee who still faces deportation.
Rare diseases left untreated in Daghestan
The state guarantees free drug provision, while patients complain about its absence and the lack of systematic providing of medical care.
Suspicions grow of a Georgian Dream U-turn on proportional elections
Despite offering to change the country’s electoral code in response to protests, no concrete steps have yet been taken by the ruling party.
Looking for a better life: the Indians coming to Armenia
Despite many Indians coming to Armenia in search of a better life, racism and human trafficking also reveal the dark side of the ‘Armenian dream’.
