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Review | Hotel Metalurg — illustrating the loss that never fades
The quiet and compassionate documentary Hotel Metalurg is less about losing a home than about learning, painfully, how to live without one.
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Music
‘Sokhumeli Bichi’: Tamada and DillaNext on the unspoken identity of Sukhumian IDPs in Georgia
Georgian artists Tamada and DillaNext discuss their latest single and what it means for them to Sukhumian.
Georgia
UN General Assembly passes resolution on right of return for Georgian IDPs with record support
Unlike previous years, Syria opted to abstain, rather than vote against the resolution.
Georgia
IDP self-immolates in Tbilisi ‘over housing conditions’
The man’s identity is unknown, but he reportedly remains in hospital.
Armenia
‘Every day I fear the war will return’ — the displaced Armenians returning to the border regions
Around 7,600 Armenians were displaced in the wake of the September clashes on the border with Azerbaijan. While most have returned to their homes, people fear further escalations as tensions continue to flare on the border and in Nagorno-Karabakh. Almost four dozen settlements spread across three Armenian provinces were targeted by Azerbaijani shelling in the clashes of 13–14 September. Official estimates suggest that 192 residential buildings, three hotels, two schools, and one medical centre
Azerbaijan
First Azerbaijani IDPs return after 29 years in exile
A group of 41 families from the village of Aghali, in the Zangilan District, have become the first Azerbaijanis displaced during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War to return to their hometowns. On 19 July, the first wave of returnees departed to the village from the Zangilan District Executive Authority, currently located in Baku. They are the first of hundreds of thousands of displaced Azerbaijanis who have been promised homes in the areas that Azerbaijan took control of following the Second Na
Georgia
Neighbours claim IDP jumped to his death over ‘unlivable’ housing in Tbilisi
Neighbours of a man who allegedly jumped from the roof of the building in which he resided have condemned what they labelled government spin over his death, accusing them of disrespecting him. Zurab Chichoshvili, an internally displaced person (IDP) in his early 50s, fell from the roof of a former sanatorium housing IDPs on Sunday evening, dying instantly. The incident happened amidst demands from him and other residents of the building for alternative housing. Neighbours immediately gathere
