Rena Effendi attempts to find the species named after her wayward, womanising father – and a connection to the man she never knew – in this moving documentary
Photojournalist Rena Effendi’s father was…
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Four wives, two passports and a very elusive butterfly: one woman’s search for her lepidopterist father ⊖
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Rena Effendi’s film Searching for Satyrus began with a quest for the endangered insect that bears her family name. Before long, she was reckoning with secrets, lies and the mysterious life of her way…
45 days ago
‘A woman screams from a high balcony: “Help me! I’m freezing to death!”’ – novelist James Meek returns to Kyiv ⊖⊖
Stepping off the night train, full of memories of his life there three decades ago, the writer finds a changed city fighting for survival
My first flat in Kyiv was a couple of metro stops outside the …
83 days ago
‘Soviet attitudes framed local culture as backward’: the record label standing up to Russian imperialism ⊕
Ored Recordings documents chants, laments and displacement songs of the Caucasus threatened by erasure. After the invasion of Ukraine, its ‘punk ethnography’ has never been more urgent
In May 2022, a …
6 months ago
A Teenage Boy’s Jailing Unites Chechens and Tests Kadyrov’s Influence ⊖
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a story from The Moscow Times ✅ › The Moscow Times
To people from the Caucasus, Muslim Murdiev’s arrest offered validation to their experiences of facing systemic discrimination in their own country.
BBC finds Russian guards, Iranian trucks and rusting railway on Trump's Caucasus peace route ⊕
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The planned Trump Route in the South Caucasus could reshape the geopolitics of a region that borders Russia and Iran.
Georgia protesters try to storm Tbilisi presidential palace ⊖
Police used pepper spray to disperse demonstrators amid growing turmoil in the Caucasus country.
7 months ago
Regions Calling: The Unhealed Wounds of the Caucasus ○
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a story from The Moscow Times ✅ › The Moscow Times
Is the recent confrontation at the border between Ingushetia and North Ossetia-Alania an omen of instability to come?
Armenia reassures visiting Iran leader it will control Azerbaijan corridor ○
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a story from Al Jazeera 🚨 › Al Jazeera English
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian says in Yerevan that 'governance in the Caucasus region must remain Caucasian'.
8 months ago
Donald Trump brokers a peace plan in the Caucasus ○
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a story from The Economist ✅ › Europe
An American-backed deal between Armenia and Azerbaijan could weaken Russia