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Caucasus in Context

Pulitzer Center Director Jon Sawyer traveled to Russia and throughout the South Caucasus, reporting on a region that is caught between East and West, North and South as well as its own conflicted history.

The project focused in part on several of the "frozen conflicts" left over from the collapse of the former Soviet Union, among them the disputed territories of South Ossetia and Abkhazia in Georgia and Nagorno Karabakh, between Armenia and Azerbaijan. The reporting also raised questions about the potential impact in a volatile region of any conflict between the United States and Iran.

Related reporting project:

Georgia and Beyond: Russia's response to separatism and ethnic conflict (Summer 08)

Jon Sawyer, Director

Jon Sawyer is director of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, a non-profit organization that funds independent reporting with the intent of raising the standard of media coverage of global affairs....

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