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.
Azeri Refugees
Published September 25, 2006
They call it the "Turkish tent town" because Azeri refugees who fled nearby Nagorno Karabakh during the 1992-94 war were initially housed in tents supplied by Turkish humanitarian groups. Residents here have built simple mud-brick shelters since but life remains hard: The family of Mammadov and Ashatma Bayram, pictured here, sleeps 12 in a single dirt-floored room; they cook in the open under UNHCR tarps. The Azeri government is transferring this community 20 miles south, to newly built houses far from shopping or work but within sight of the still-contested border with Nagorno Karabakh.
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The National Endowment for Democracy presents:
Brutal Censorship: Targeting Journalists in the North Caucasus
Jon Sawyer, the Pulitzer Center's founder and executive director presents a lecture titled "Conflict and Context: Reporting from the Caucasus" to the
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Pulitzer Center staff
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Jon Sawyer is director of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, a non-profit organization that funds independent reporting with the intent of raising...
