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TOL Talk: As Azerbaijan goes to the polls, freedom of expression takes a beating.

To look at last Sunday’s historic ceremony in eastern Turkey simply through a lens of Turkish-Armenian relations is to obscure the efforts of local Kurds to act as bridge builders.

TOL slide show: The residents of Baku’s “Shanghai” settlement don’t like living a few feet from passing freight trains – but they like being kicked out even less.

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.