Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Several cities around the globe have reinvented themselves in recent years, but none more successfully than Almaty. Since the ...
In the late 1970s, Central Asia could seem to some like just another stagnating Soviet backwater. News of the day praised economic achievements that weren't real — just as local communist leaders ...
Bishkek hosted the first Eurasian Economic Forum on May 26. In addition to an address from Russian President Vladimir Putin via videoconference, there were a number of panel discussions about ...
On the facade of an apartment block in Tajikistan’s capital Dushanbe, a giant mosaic depicting cosmonauts and engineers celebrates the scientific triumphs of the Soviet Union. Like so many other ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The bright Ascension Cathedral is one of Almaty's landmark buildings - getty I was standing outside the grand Stalin-era Science ...
ALMATY, Kazakhstan -- In Central Asia's two biggest countries,Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, modernist reformers who were repressed in the early Soviet period are now being celebrated in documentaries, ...
ON the remote and mysterious plain, the crenelated walls with their eleven great gates and 181 watchtowers gleamed in the night. “Seen thus,” wrote British Traveler Fitzroy Maclean in Escape to ...
A bust of Kunayev in a park named after the former Kazakh SSR leader in Almaty. Credit: Wikimedia Commons / Vmenkov Subscribe for ads-free reading On the same day last week, authorities in Kazakhstan ...
Statues commemorating the Soviet Union’s long-dead leaders, who once ruled an empire stretching from the Baltic Sea to the Pacific Ocean, have had their ups and downs. A Moscow metro station recently ...
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Just two weeks into President Obama's administration, Russia is moving to reassert its influence over former Soviet republics in Central Asia. Moscow is pushing military cooperation and offering ...