Alyona is from St.Petersburg but moved to Tbilisi a few years ago. She said that she didn’t like the weather and aggressiveness in Russia and that she feels at home in Tbilisi now. She was taking part in the demonstrations against the Georgian government, which are also directed against the…
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Irma and Lika came for the daily protests against the government that are taking place in Tbilisi at the moment. They said that they wanted the minister of the interior to resign. Georgi Gakharia had been responsible for the violent clamp down on demonstrators during the mass protests against the…
Adlan and Iznaur are Chechen road police officers, but here they are posing as Miami Vice beach police. There is no beach in Chechnya, but a luxury ski resort has opened recently high up in the mountains, and as the two policemen did not have much to do, they drove…
Elmira is a guide at the Akhmad Kadyrov museum in Grozny. It is eulogising the first president of the modern Russian-backed Chechen Republic, around whom a personality cult has been built. After supporting separatism during the first Chechen war Akhmad Kadyrov switched sides, supporting Russia during the second with his…
Sorry, this entry is only available in German. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language: In Belarus gibt es keine Obdachlosen und keine Armut. So lautet zumindest die Staatsdoktrin der autoritären Regierung von Präsident Alexander Lukaschenko. Die Realität ist davon allerdings weit…