A threatened old building and a striking new one symbolize the split personality of development in Azerbaijan’s booming capital.

TOL Talk: Kyrgyzstan’s crisis is no longer in the headlines, but it continues nonetheless, with mass round-ups, beatings, and torture.

TOL audio slide show: A supposedly liberalizing law on private production of Hungary’s national drink hasn’t convinced many home distillers to go straight.

For Georgia’s few remaining Roma, traditional music goes out of fashion.
TOL slide show: Polish cities large and small grapple with the challenges of revitalization that strengthens rather than separates urban communities.

TOL slide show: On Baku’s outskirts, one of the most polluted places on earth, residents live with the legacy of oil.


A photographer documents a decade of Belarus’ tentative search for a post-Soviet national identity.

TOL Talk: One analyst says pent up frustrations and wrong-headed policies made the violence in southern Kyrgyzstan inevitable.
Minority Coverage in Focus
With the recent events in Kyrgyzstan, the need to improve coverage of ethnic and other minorities was again thrown into stark relief. Toward that end, TOL has launched a call for applications for a distance-learning course on the subject for media professionals and bloggers from Central Asia. Deadline: September 20th, 2010
For more information or to apply, click here.
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