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Review | Ravens Before Noah — a bleak yet poetic look at survivors of the Armenian Genocide
Susanna Harutyunyan’s 2015 novel eloquently captures the traumas remaining amongst survivors of the Armenian Genocide.
World War II
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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.
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Review | People and Trees: A Trilogy — exploring boyhood in rural Soviet Azerbaijan
A collection of three novellas, People and Trees encapsulates the experiences of a boy growing up in post-World War II Azerbaijan.
Georgia
Putin urges Georgians to ‘preserve the good traditions of friendship’ ahead of Victory Day
Russian President Vladimir Putin specifically congratulated the people of Georgia and Moldova as opposed to those countries’ heads of state.
Azerbaijan
In last-minute cancellation, Aliyev will not attend Moscow Victory Day celebration
The news of the cancellation was announced by Kremlin official Yuri Ushakov.
Chechen and Ingush Deportations
Russia amends schoolbooks labelling victims of Stalinist deportations ‘Nazi collaborators’
Russia’s Ministry of Education has made changes to a history textbook that referred to North Caucasian nations that were deported from their homes during World War II as ‘Nazi collaborators’. The textbook spurred controversy in the North Caucasus, where several nations were deported en masse to Siberia and Central Asia during World War II for allegedly collaborating with the invading Nazi Germany. These included the Karachays, the Balkars, the Ingush, and the Chechens in the North Caucasus,
Armenia
Voice | ‘I went to war at 17’
In 1941, aged just 17, Vardanush Zakaryan was called to serve in the Soviet Army — at the height of WWII. Shortly thereafter, her husband was also sent to the front. For the next four years, the two saw each other infrequently, but their love never died. ‘I went through a lot. I lost my dad when I was a child, so I moved from Tiflis, where I was born and lived, to Baku, where I began to live with my mom and stepfather. I was 12 when my mother died. So I grew up an orphan. One parent is buried
