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Lydia's life

A Moldovan woman sees her father dragged to a Soviet gulag. Later, it's her turn. One woman's story of the terrible legacy of Stalinist terror in Europe. »

Cleansing the past in Omarska

Three years after ArcelorMittal bought an iron ore mine once used as a concentration camp, there is still no memorial to the thousands slain at the site.  »

Woes Revolution

Georgia's rose revolution brought hope to the ailing former Soviet state, but the country's firebrand leader is rapidly falling out of favour with voters  »

Staring at Stalin

Josef Stalin is reckoned to be responsible for the deaths of over 20 million people. But there is no mention of this in the former dictator's Georgian hometown »