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.
South Ossetia
Published September 25, 2006
These photographs depict life in and around Tskhinvali, capital of the breakaway region of South Ossetia that lies just beneath the Russian border in a troubled region of Georgia. Bullet-ridden buildings in the city and schoolyard cemeteries testify to fighting from the early 1990s. Villagers describe ethnic tensions and shootings that continue today but they also come into the city to shop at markets where Georgian vendors ply their wares. Some two thirds of the region's residents have taken Russian passports; Georgians insist that South Ossetia will be brought back into the Georgian fold.
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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...
