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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Afghan Refugees Wait Out Conflict in Pakistan

July 17, 2009 - 1:00pm

by: Jonathan Alpeyrie

Pakistan

The Pakistani military’s push against Taliban strongholds in the Swat Valley has created a forced migration emergency, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. Almost 1.5 million people...
Kazakhs Remember Their Country's Nuclear Past

July 14, 2009 - 12:00pm

by: David Trilling

Kazakhstan

For more than 40 years the Soviet-era nuclear test site of the Polygon, located in eastern Kazakhstan about 60 kilometers from Kurchatov, witnessed more than 450 test nuclear detonations.
Sacred Mountain in Osh Makes Coveted UNESCO List

July 10, 2009 - 1:00pm

by: David Trilling

Kyrgyzstan

The southwestern Kyrgyz city of Osh encircles the Islamic religious site of Sulaiman Too mountain. The 295-hectare complex, including the mountain, surrounding cemeteries and old residential...
Kazakhstan: President Stamps Personality on the Nation

July 2, 2009 - 1:00pm

by: David Trilling, Joanna Lillis

Kazakhstan

The glittery city of Astana celebrates its 10th year as capital of the Central Asian country headed by President Nursultan Nazarbayev - the country's first and only leader following its...
The Private Lives of Iran's Youth

June 18, 2009 - 12:00pm

Iran

An estimated two-thirds of Iran’s population is younger than 30. With the morality police constantly patrolling the streets of Tehran, Iranian youth try to find a place in society that stays clear...
Ethnic Animosities, Border Disputes Pit Kyrgyz Against Tajiks

June 5, 2009 - 12:00pm

by: David Trilling

Kyrgyzstan
Tajikistan
Uzbekistan

The Ferghana Valley's overlapping borders are notoriously porous, portals for narcotics smugglers and - regional governments claim - Islamic insurgents. In many areas, such as around the Tajik...
Camel Close Encounters on the Aral Sea Bed

May 29, 2009 - 1:00pm

by: David Trilling

Kazakhstan

At the bottom of the Aral Sea, in what is now a desert of salt and dust, EurasiaNet Central Asia news editor David Trilling gets uncomfortably close with the two-humped camels. Named for a former...
Tajikistan: French Air Detachment in Dushanbe Quietly Carries Out Afghan Mission

May 18, 2009 - 12:00pm

by: David Trilling

Tajikistan

Dushanbe’s ramshackle airport can boast at least one unique feature. It is the only facility in the world to host both a NATO and Russian air detachment. Both unassuming military outposts share...
Families Face Hardships in Sumgayit

April 26, 2009 - 12:00pm

by: Rena Effendi

Azerbaijan

Poor families of builders and former factory workers live in the shacks of this neighborhood of Sumgayit. Most people here are unemployed due to the drastic reduction of construction projects...
Lost Ships, Dwindling Fishing Industry and Salt Flats

April 24, 2009 - 12:00pm

by: David Trilling

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan’s former fishing village of Bogen once enjoyed near mythological status in the Soviet Union, its fishermen lionized during World War II for supplying truckloads of their catch form the...

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