The working elderly — why in Azerbaijan ‘nobody wants to retire’
Elderly people in Azerbaijan are often seen working well beyond the age of retirement, often in hard physical jobs. The government has tried to celebrate this, claiming that no one wants to retire in Azerbaijan, but others point out that low state pensions give many no other choice
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Projects
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Multimedia
Russia’s Spiritual Christians on Armenia’s HighlandsThe village of Fioletovo in northern Armenia is one of a kind. Nestled among the mountains north of Lake Sevan, it is home to 1,500-odd Molokans, a Christian sect which split from Russia’...
The numbers of the Eu enlargement The EU-Western Balkans summit, held on May 17 in Sofia, was conceived to restore momentum to the European perspective of the region. But what are the cultural, institutional and eco...
Absheron’s Bağ Evi: Looking for a Lost Cottage They were meant for escape from Baku’s sizzling summer days, when high humidity and powerful winds can cover the skin with a gritty, wet film. Bağ evi (literally, “garden house”) are...
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Arts and culture
- Who else is watching Romanian films? 17/04/2018
- Roma in the Balkans: the story of Nazif 26/03/2018
- Europeans at the cinema, from East to West 13/02/2018
- Faruk Begolli, a life between Belgrade and Prishtina 08/02/2018
Reportage
An exceptional trip to the Strofades islands, regarded as home to the mythical Harpies, and the breathtaking beauty of an ancient hermitage that risks disappearing
Dossier
After the outbreak of some world-famous scandals (Wikileaks, LuxLeaks, Panama Papers ...) the debate on the democratic role of the so-called "whistleblowers" finally rose up at European level. OBCT published an analysis and asked from its network of media partners to go deeply into the subject. The dossier
Interview
Serbia increasingly appears as a central hub in the Balkans for the Chinese-led "Belt and Road Initiative", both at an infrastructural and a political level. We discussed about it with Dragana Mitrović (University of Belgrade)
