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Salafis and Sufis make peace in Pankisi

15 June 2017 by Sulkhan Bordzikashvili

(OC Media)

The Salafi community and Sufi Council of Elders in Pankisi Valley, northeast Georgia, agreed to cooperate on 14 June and to work together on issues in the valley.   [Read more…]

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‘If war breaks out again, I will go’ — the polarisation of young Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Georgia

8 May 2017 by Gita Elibekyan

Emzar, owner of a carpet shop in Tbilisi (Gita Elibekyan/OC Media)

Despite Georgia’s attempts to better integrate and include ethnic minori­ties, young ethnic Armenians and Azer­bai­ja­nis in the country are becoming more polit­i­cal­ly invested in the affairs of Armenia and Azer­bai­jan than in their Georgian homeland.

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Filed Under: Minorities, Top Tagged With: Armenia, Azerbaijan, georgia, integration, nagorno-karabakh, peace, radicalisation

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