London exhibition to depict poverty in post-Soviet Armenia

London's Strand gallery will host next week an Oxfam exhibition, showcasing scenes of poverty in the post-Soviet republics.

After The Thaw will highlight the plight of the people of Armenia, Georgia, Tajikistan and Azerbaijan, showing scenes of economic hardship two decades after the fall of the Soviet tyranny, Huffington Post reported.

“A lot of people don’t have a clue where countries such as Tajikistan are – they aren’t in the western consciousness and have been left behind,” said Oxfam spokesperson Lysbeth Holdaway.

The scenes include depictions of a woman struggling to light a fire, a young boy eating pasta and yoghurt and a family, half-starved, living in a ramshackle house, while young girl use a local herb to draw a “beautiful” monobrow on their foreheads.