Partners caught on different sides of the yearlong conflict reflect on how it has affected their relationships.
Pearly Jacob
Pearly Jacob is a freelance multimedia journalist and filmmaker currently based in Tbilisi, Georgia. Her environmental reporting and cultural features... have been published by by Al Jazeera English, National Geographic, BBC, DW, EurasiaNet.org, Global Post, the Atlantic, Voice of America and CNN’s former cinematic video platform, Great Big Story.
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How artists, volunteers and designers turned a Ukrainian folk blouse and craft into symbols of defiance.
Georgia relies on Russian wheat but as the Ukraine war drags on, local farmers are strengthening the domestic market.
India’s Kaziranga National Park is home to several protected and endangered species, but it’s the conservation success of the one-horned Indian rhino that has turned this park into a world heritage site.
Mongolia’s standard of care for people with terminal illnesses is ranked higher than its larger neighbours Russia and China, as well as some European countries.
Local authorities in Mongolia are scrambling to find ways to stop young people from leaving small towns for the capital.
Mongolia’s first commercial solar plant is now supplying the central electricity grid.
The Morin Khuur or ‘Horse Fiddle’ has evolved from a folk instrument used in small villages to being featured in classical Western performances.
Mongolia’s capital is one of the coldest in the world, as well as being among the most polluted in winter. More than half the residents living in Ulaanbaatar’s suburbs burn coal to keep warm.
The two-humped Bactrian camel helped people settle and adapt to life in the Gobi desert of Mongolia, but their numbers have rapidly decreased in the past few decades.