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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Cafesjian Center for the Arts Opens to a Packed House

November 13, 2009 - 11:00am

by: Anahit Hayrapetyan

Armenia

Yerevan’s $35 million, 1,100-square-meter Cafesjian Center for the Arts officially opened its doors on Nov. 7, 2009. The museum is part of a seven-year project by Armenian-American Gerard L.
Herders Move with the Seasons Across the Mongolian Steppe

November 4, 2009 - 12:00pm

by: Joanna Lillis

Mongolia

With fall fast approaching, the Mongol and Kazakh herders who inhabit this land of craggy peaks, wide valleys and silver blue lakes in the Altay Mountains are on the move, heading for lower...
In the Tajik Cotton Fields With Children

November 2, 2009 - 2:26am

Tajikistan

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,...
Afghans Turn to Falbins for Comfort

October 29, 2009 - 11:00am

by: Elissa Bogos

Afghanistan

Through centuries of conflict, fortunetellers have been a steady source of consolation for Afghans. Some date their practice to the time of Alexander the Great, whose army sought out soothsayers...
Kazakhstan: A Showpiece of Energy Wealth Rises in the Western Desert

October 28, 2009 - 7:00pm

by: David Trilling, Joanna Lillis

Kazakhstan

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...
Memorabilia, Statues and Museums Commemorate Stalin

October 16, 2009 - 11:00am

by: Temo Bardzimashvili

Georgia

The Stalin Museum in Gori, the birthplace of the former Soviet leader, features his personal railway car and the shack in which he was born. While a significant number of Georgians now blame...
Meskhetian Turks Return to Lost Homeland in Georgia

October 9, 2009 - 12:00pm

by: Temo Bardzimashvili

Georgia

Roughly 65 years ago, Osman, a 90-year-old Meskhetian Turk, lost his home in Georgia to Stalin’s dictat. Now, after a lifetime in Central Asia, Osman, along with hundreds of other Meskhetian Turks...
IMF Meeting in Istanbul Marked by Police-Protestor Confrontation

October 6, 2009 - 11:00am

by: Jonathan Lewis

Turkey

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...
Brick by Brick, Isolated Min Kush Crumbles Away

September 21, 2009 - 11:00am

by: David Trilling

Kyrgyzstan

Meaning "1,000 Birds" in Kyrgyz, the industrial town of Min Kush was known throughout Kyrgyzstan as "little Moscow." Despite being a closed zone in Soviet times -- not appearing on maps and...
Two Worlds of the Caucasian Sheep Dog

September 4, 2009 - 7:00pm

by: Temo Bardzimashvili

Georgia

For centuries, farmers in Georgia's highlands have relied on a particular breed, the Caucasian Sheep Dog, to care for their herds. But as farm life gives way to cities and factories, the country's...

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