(DEUTSCHE WELLE) In order to join the European Union, Lithuania agreed to close down its nuclear power plant, Ignalina. The Soviet-era technology is the same as that used at Chernobyl.…
(DEUTSCHE WELLE) The war over the border between Russia and Georgia has revived bad memories in the Baltic States. 18 years ago, Moscow tried to prevent the independence of Latvia,…
(BBC) Azerbaijan and Armenia became independent after the collapse of the Soviet Union, but a mountainous area of Azerbaijan called Nagorno-Karabakh (NK) triggered war. Historically it was mainly Armenian Christian,…
(UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY) A film on the Karabakh conflict with Thomas de Waal, Institute of War and Peace Reporting. Part of the Contested Spaces Video Project, University of Sydney.
(AL JAZEERA) In this week’s The Listening Post, Richard Gizbert puts Azerbaijan under the spotlight. Freedom of the press in the former Soviet republic has not moved on since pre-perestroika…
(AL JAZEERA) Azerbaijan has potentially lucrative oil reserves, but opposition politicians say widespread corruption has left revenues from the country’s natural resources in the hands of a small number of…
(JOURNEYMAN PICTURES) Kazakhstan’s first soap opera, “Crossroads” is no ordinary Programme – it is teaching its viewers to come to terms with life after communism. In the control room, the…
(JOURNEYMAN PICTURES) For decades, the Aral Sea has been described as dying and beyond salvation. But now, the water is flowing back, bringing economic revival and hope for the future.…
(EURONEWS) Self-proclaimed South Ossetia is insisting on its independence from the former Soviet republic of Georgia, in the Caucasus region. Brussels, Washington, Moscow and Tbilisi are on a diplomatic storm-watch…
(EURONEWS) Fifteen years ago, it would have been unimaginable that Estonian soldiers fulfill missions in Iraq and Afghanistan. Today, the small Baltic state hopes to play a “bigger” role in…