
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.
Eldar Shengelaia’s 1968 film is a layered parable on artistic individualism in the collectivist Soviet Union.
A collection of three novellas, People and Trees encapsulates the experiences of a boy growing up in post-World War II Azerbaijan.
Russian President Vladimir Putin specifically congratulated the people of Georgia and Moldova as opposed to those countries’ heads of state.
The news of the cancellation was announced by Kremlin official Yuri Ushakov.
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,
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
Seventy-seven years after the deportation of the entire Chechen and Ingush nations to Central Asia, Chechen returnees from a small corner of Daghestan still dream of returning to their homes. Every year on 23 February, Chechens and Ingush people mark the tragic anniversary of the Soviet deportations of 1944 on the orders of Stalin — a genocidal event that cost the lives of up to one-third of their total population. In recent years, the largest events to commemorate the day have been held not