Scoop-Caucasus stays in Georgia

Scoop deeply regrets the recent acts of war in Georgia. Both the many civilian losses and the deaths and injuries of several journalists. Among the dead reporters are according to Reporters Without Borders Giga Chikhladze, correspondent of Russian Newsweek and head of Alania TV, Alexander Klimchuk, head of the photo agency Caucasus Press Images and correspondent for the news agency Itar-Tass, and Stan Storimans, cameraman for the Dutch TV station RTL-4. Beside these tragic losses Scoop also...

World premiere of Scoop-supported documentary at Sarajevo film Festival

So many people came to see the Scoop supported documentary-film "If you are watching this, Mum", that there were not enough chairs in the cinema at the 14th Sarajevo Film Festival which took place in August. The film tells the story of the children from the "Ljubica Ivezic" orphanage in Sarajevo who were taken to Italy in 1992 in order to save them from the war.

Boom in the number of centres for investigative reporting

The worldwide practice of investigative reporting has grown dramatically over the past 20 years in all parts of the world, e.g. Brazil, China, and India. Investigative reporter and director of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, David E. Kaplan, shares the results of his survey on investigative journalism with Scoop-readers.

 

The gold mining companies become more and more interested in the East European countries. Underdeveloped legislation, corruption and governments’ negligence of the interests of the people create the best natural environment for gold hunters. The Balkan gold trail crosses Romania, Ukraine, Turkey, Bulgaria and Serbia – everywhere it leaves behind devastated environment and sick people. And everywhere we tracked the same persons, who represent the companies, registered in Canada and closely...

Maryna Makarova bought her flat in downtown Kremenchuk in 1997. In summer 2007 she could suddenly read in a local newspaper, that “Tumbledown Buildings Will Be Bulldozed” – one of them the apartment building she lived in. She was aware that a construction project was on its way. The state, the city council and all official institutions lined up to pull the project through. And Maryna Makarova will probably have to move and to invest 15.000 USD to finish her new apartment “fully paid for” by the...

The famous liner SS United States won the “blue ribbon” on her maiden voyage in July 1953. In just 82 hours and 40 minutes she crossed the Atlantic. In the 90’ies United States ended up in Crimea because no other European shipyard was ready to run the risk. In 2006 it was revealed that 40 tonnes of asbestos were still stored in an open warehouse at the shipyard. The investigation takes a look at the scandal from the beginning to the present.

The Feodosians are very unhappy about the drinking water coming out of the tap – it smells badly, has an awful taste and is very often more brown than clean. Reporter Elena Cherdak from the newspaper Kafa in Feodosia (Crimea, 75.000 inhabitants) took samples and asked three different laboratories to analyse them. The citizens of the old city founded by the Greeks are right: The water does not comply with the Ukrainian State Standard 2874-85 for drinking water. But the waterworks will do...

Agricultural pesticides so dangerous that they today are forbidden, are still stored in large amounts in the village of Chernivtsi. So far it has not been possible to remove them.