Reviews
Review | The Cage is Looking for a Bird — a Chechen tale of women’s agency
Malika Musaeva’s film is an uncompromisingly depressing look into how little agency young women in the North Caucasus have in their own lives.
Women’s Rights
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Armenia
Armenia deports Chechen who threatened to murder daughter
The deportation follows the high-profile murder of a Chechen woman in Yerevan.
Chechnya
Chechen man suspected of killing ex-wife in France takes own life
Bashir Alibiev was found dead in his cell in a detention centre.
Chechnya
More than 3,000 divorced families reunited in Chechnya, authorities report
The figure is higher than in the eight years of the reunification commission's existence.
Chechnya
Georgia investigates circumstances of return and death of woman who fled Chechnya
Aliya Ozdamirova was buried two days after her forced return to Chechnya in November 2025.
Reviews
Review | Some Interviews on Personal Matters — a Georgian woman, uninterrupted
Some Interviews on Personal Matters is a pioneering work of feminist filmmaking and an intricate, intimate portrait of womanhood.
Azerbaijan
Human rights groups call on Azerbaijan to investigate sexual harassment of jailed journalists
Detained journalists Aysel Umudova and Ulviyya Guliyeva (Ali) had both written letters from prison about the sexual harassment they have faced.
