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Kyrgyzstan: Reality Fashion Show Spotlights Homegrown Talent
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View ArticleCentral Asian Children Keep Ramadan Caroling Alive
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View ArticleFrom Yurts To Kimchi, Protecting The World's 'Intangible' Cultures
Copyright show: Hide copyrights Seventy-year-old Kakesh Jumabai-Kyzy has spent her entire life working with felt. The mother of eight lives in the mountainous Kyrgyz area of At-Bashy, where many...
View ArticleTajikistan: Intellectuals Finding Little Room for Reasoned Discourse
Copyright show: No Last July, authorities in Tajikistan confiscated the only manuscript of a little-known novelist’s latest book. In what can only be described as an Orwellian sequence, after the...
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Copyright show: Hide copyrights As the European Union continues to mull possible sanctions on Russia, artists across Europe are actively rallying in defense of Ukraine following the deployment of...
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Tajikistan’s Small Russian Community Marks Easter
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