Multimedia: Photo Essays

Once the pampered pets of regional strongman Aslan Abashidze, the ostriches had their fate rewritten in May 2004 when Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili ousted Abashidze from power in the...

The cotton sector in Tajikistan appears caught in a downward spiral, and the child-labor issue is but one of many problem areas. In the country's southern districts abutting the Afghan border,...

Kazakhstan's port city of Aktau on the Caspian Sea has had some ups and downs in its short history. Founded just half a century ago, it thrived as a center of the Soviet uranium and chemical...

The Tsarist-era Russian anarchist gadflies Mikhail Bakunin and Peter Kropotkin are widely credited with coming up with the slogan "anarchy is the mother of order." But on October 6, protesters...