Georgia: Where Feasting Traditions Are Movable

Molly Corso

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

Justyna Mielnikiewicz, Paul Rimple

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

Natasha Yefimov and David Trilling

Kyrgyzstan
Mongolia: Activists Try to Keep Environmental Treasure Clean

Pearly Jacob

Mongolia
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
Child Jockeys Train for Naadam Horse Races

Andrew Cullen

Mongolia

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Three Women Reflect on International Women's Day

March 8, 2010 - 11:00am

by: Molly Corso

Georgia

Diana Karibova, a 24-year-old marketing manager at the American Chamber of Commerce, and her husband Giorgi share parental duties for their newborn son Alex. By tradition,...
Interview 180: Democratization Crucial for Security

March 2, 2010 - 9:00am

by: Katya Kumkova

Kazakhstan

Vladimir Shkolnikov, a former top official at the Organization for the Security and Cooperation of Europe's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), took part in an informal...
Tajikistan: Yak Herders See New Challenges in Post-Communist World

February 25, 2010 - 11:00am

by: David Trilling

Tajikistan

Orozbek's daughters are making green tea. As my eyes adjust to the darkness inside his family's yurt, the little girls fuss with plastic cauldrons of water around a small tin stove stuffed with...
Village Mourns Georgia's Olympic Luger Kumaritashvili

February 20, 2010 - 12:00pm

by: Temo Bardzimashvili

Georgia

Georgian Olympic luger Nodar Kumaritashvili died on Feb. 12, 2010, after crashing into a steel beam during a practice run on a luge track at the Vancouver Winter Olympics.
Tension High Along South Ossetian Ceasefire Line

February 5, 2010 - 12:00pm

by: Jonathan Alpeyrie

Georgia

The Georgian-Russian conflict lasted for five days in August, 2008. But along the ceasefire line today both sides remain on a war-footing. An abundance of checkpoints, defensive positions, and...
Life at One of Georgia’s Oldest Monasteries

January 29, 2010 - 12:00pm

by: Jonathan Alpeyrie

Georgia

The Kintsvisi monastery is a place where the past manages to keep the present at bay. The monks who reside at this sanctuary, situated in the heavily wooded mountains of Georgia’s Shida Kartli...
Makeshift IDP Camp Reveals Aid Dilemmas in Afghanistan

January 27, 2010 - 12:00pm

by: Elissa Bogos

Afghanistan

Kabul’s ubiquitous fruit stands and pharmacies begin to thin out around the Charahee Qambar neighborhood, situated a few miles west of the capital’s center and home to the city’s largest...
Dwindling Sikh Community Endures in Kabul

January 27, 2010 - 12:00pm

by: Elissa Bogos

Afghanistan

For many years, Sikhs were a prominent part of Kabul’s commercial scene, occupying prominent positions as traders, entrepreneurs, and, later, currency exchange specialists. But in today’s...
Feathered Farm Carries Political History

November 25, 2009 - 11:00am

by: Temo Bardzimashvili

Georgia

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...
Falconers Struggle To Keep Tradition Alive in Georgia

November 19, 2009 - 12:00pm

by: Temo Bardzimashvili

Georgia

Once known as a nobleman’s sport, falconry in today’s Georgia lives on mostly among the poor. In Achara, also known as Ajara, it is a hobby that can trace its origin back some 2,000 years. Still,...

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