Turkmenistan: Berdymukhamedov Takes Tumble

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Georgia: Soaking Up the Dying Tradition of Massage in the Tbilisi Baths

Justyna Mielnikiewicz, Paul Rimple

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Kyrgyzstan’s April Uprising: Path to Change or Death in Vain?

Natasha Yefimov and David Trilling

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Pearly Jacob

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Kazakhstan’s Old Believers Keep the Faith

David Trilling and Joanna Lillis

Kazakhstan
Once Prosperous, Jangalak Now Fills With Refugees

Iason Athanasiadis

Afghanistan
Big Birds Swoop In for Annual Bayan Ulgii Festival

Andrew Cullen

Mongolia

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Georgia: LGBT Rally Participants Recollect Mob Attack

May 24, 2013 - 9:32am

by: Giorgi Lomsadze

Georgia

On May 17, hundreds of Georgian protesters, assembled by Georgian Orthodox Church priests, descended on an anti-homophobia rally in Tbilisi to express their opposition to LGBT rights.
Turkmenistan: Arkadag’s Day at the Races Redux

May 21, 2013 - 7:09am

Turkmenistan

Last month, security forces in Turkmenistan tried to prevent video of President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov falling off his horse...

Georgia: Violent Mob Mars LGBT Rally

May 17, 2013 - 2:19pm

by: Giorgi Lomsadze

Georgia

A raging mob in Tbilisi chased away a downtown rally designed to commemorate the May 17 International Day against Homophobia. “Kill them! Tear them to pieces!” yelled the agitated crowd as police...
Turkmenistan: Berdymukhamedov Takes Tumble

April 29, 2013 - 11:12am

Turkmenistan

State controlled media in Turkmenistan likes to portray President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov as a demi-god. But Berdymukhamedov proved all too human in taking a scary tumble at the racetrack.
Georgia: For Metal Scavengers, a Scrappy Fight to Survive

April 19, 2013 - 12:53am

by: Temo Bardzimashvili

Georgia

A sledgehammer swooshes down and crushes old concrete, revealing rusty reinforcement bars. One more swing and the bar loosens enough to remove it from what once used to be part of a factory wall...
Tamada Travels: The Return of Stalin

April 12, 2013 - 12:00pm

by: Giorgi Lomsadze

Georgia

Episode 3: “[A] pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of history sooner or later will sweep it away,” Joseph Stalin reportedly once predicted.
Interview 180: Juggling the Roles of Kazakh and Russian Languages

March 21, 2013 - 11:07pm

by: Dean C.K. Cox, Joanna Lillis

Kazakhstan

Dr. Zhar Zardykhan is an associate professor at the Department of International Relations and Regional Studies at KIMEP University in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Kazakhstan: The Sweet Smell of Success

March 15, 2013 - 1:20pm

by: Joanna Lillis and David Trilling

Kazakhstan

On a factory floor in Kazakhstan’s commercial capital, Almaty, a machine squirts elegant swirls of rich brown chocolate into molds and the tray clatters down the production line.
Interview 180: Was the Eurasian Economic Union a Good Deal for Kazakhstan?

March 14, 2013 - 11:03pm

by: Dean C.K. Cox, Joanna Lillis

Kazakhstan

Dr. Nargis Kassenova is an associate professor at the Department of International Relations and Regional Studies at KIMEP University in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Georgia: Officials See Trade as Way to Promote Ossetian Peace

March 14, 2013 - 11:02am

by: Justyna Mielnikiewicz, Paul Rimple

Georgia

In the Georgian village of Ergneti, many still look at the South Ossetian peace process down the barrel of a gun. But villagers and the Georgian government hope that, one day, progress will be...

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