Albanian postcards produced by the Italian State firm “Distaptur” during the occupation of the country. The son of the firm's director made the archive available to Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso – September 2010
Last August, the youth forum “Mashuk 2010”, the first summer camp promoted by Moscow's government and solely devoted to young people from the Russian Caucasus, was held in Pyatigorsk, an old spa town in Russia’s North Caucasian Federal District. The event focused on training for cultural interaction and support to youth entrepreneurship.
This year is the 5th anniversary of the European Neighbourhood Policy, which dictates Europe's relations with its closest neighbours. Currently, at least in the middle term, these countries are not striving to be included in the integration process. Five years of increasing relations, although – and on this point the European institutions find themselves in agreement – there is still a lot of work that needs to be done especially in terms of shared values regarding democracy and human rights. A video.[May 2010]