Category: Reportage
Life Along The Tracks In Baku’s ‘Shanghai’
Far from the wealthy neighborhoods built on Azerbaijan’s oil boom, residents of the area known as “Shanghai” live just meters from the railroad tracks. People in this crowded quarter are used to their homes rattling as trains pass, and to the dangers that come with their location. Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn
Georgian conflict
Ergneti, a small village on the Administrative Boundary Line (ABL) separating South Ossetia from Georgia proper, is just a stone’s throw away from Tskhinvali, the breakaway region’s capital. Since the war of the early 1990s it also used to be home to a market that saw both sides trade. Now, resembling many an impoverished village […]