Activists in Armenia recently obtained a list of 31 nongovernmental organizations that have received more than $1 million in state grants. But finding most of these mysterious groups has proven virtually impossible.

A new documentary film looks at how the people of the South Caucasus continue to deal with the consequences of the region's violent past. The film, "Memories Without Borders," looks at ordinary people living in often extraordinary circumstances, in Nagorno-Karabakh, Baku, southern Armenia, and Istanbul.

Across East and South Asia, demographers and policymakers have long struggled with the imbalance between the numbers of boys and girls being born. The natural proportion should be approximately 105 boys for every 100 girls, but, in parts of these regions, ratios have risen as high as 130 or even 140 to 100. Recently, the problem has also arisen in the South Caucasus and the Balkans.

During his lifetime, Armenian-American painter Arthur Pinajian was barely known in his community, let alone on the world art stage. But after several kind twists of fate, his works escaped the landfill and are now valued at $30 million.