Thirty-six per cent of Georgia’s young people say they support protecting the rights of ‘sexual minorities’.
Ingush Supreme Court ruled to eliminate Muftiate
The ruling came in response to a lawsuit from the republic’s Ministry of Justice.
Azerbaijani students struggle with high tuition fees
As students continue to drop out of university for financial reasons, critics call for reform.
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 from the Georgian–South Ossetian conflict | ‘There is nothing worse than war’
‘When they started setting houses on fire, and burned down my cousins’ houses, we were forced to run away. We were afraid that they would burn us all. So we ran.’
Analysis | What divides and what unites Georgian society?
CRRC-Georgia examines the actors, issues, and institutions that people think divide society.
Afghan war veterans in Daghestan go on hunger strike
Starting on 17 September, Afghan veterans of Daghestan declared a hunger strike in Makhachkala demanding better housing conditions.
Georgia extradites Chechen terror suspect to Russia
His lawyer insisted he is innocent and that he could face torture in Russia.
Two killed in ‘counterterror operation’ in Kabardino-Balkaria
The authorities claimed the men were members of the ‘radical Islamist underground’.
Majority of Georgians say ‘excessive force used’ during 20 June protest, poll finds
Georgians are largely (57%) undecided which party they would support if there were elections tomorrow
Feature Stories
Azerbaijani students struggle with high tuition fees
As students continue to drop out of university for financial reasons, critics call for reform.
The Dispensary: Life in Kabardino-Balkaria’s only public addiction clinic
Patients at the Narcological Dispensary in Nalchik report a startlingly low level of care.
Azerbaijan’s new morality police
New police units fighting against ‘immoral actions’ in Baku will affect not only sex-workers but may also be used as a tool to pressure civil society.
Two suicides in one week: the cost of forced marriages in Azerbaijan
Between 30 July and 6 August, two teenage girls took their own lives in Azerbaijan to protest their forced marriages.
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.
