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Review | Solar Plexus: A Baku Saga in Four Parts
Famed Azerbaijani screenwriter Rustam Ibragimbekov’s 1996 novel captures the story of Soviet Baku across multiple generations.
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Chechnya
Kadyrov awarded the Soviet-era ‘Group of Forces in Germany’ order
What connection Chechen Head Ramzan Kadyrov has to Soviet veterans remains unclear.
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Review | My Grandmother — portraying the well-choreographed chaos of Soviet bureaucracy
Kote Mikaberidze’s 1929 slapstick satire My Grandmother is a brilliant piece of Soviet Georgian cinema still relevant today.ag
Azerbaijan
Baku claims Moscow is waging ‘information campaign’ after Aliyev says Bolsheviks invaded Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan’s Parliament said the Russian campaign constituted ‘unfriendly actions against our state’.
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Review | Blue Mountains, or Unbelievable Story — a satirical Georgian masterpiece
Eldar Shengelaia’s 1983 film, one of the sharpest satirical critiques of Soviet bureaucracy in existence, is a cinematic masterpiece
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Review | The Eccentrics — a goofy Georgian ode to freedom
The Eccentrics is by far Georgian director Eldar Shengelaia’s most absurdist and outright comedic film.
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Review | An Unusual Exhibition — a tragi-comedy on artistic individuality in Georgia
Eldar Shengelaia’s 1968 film is a layered parable on artistic individualism in the collectivist Soviet Union.
