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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...

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...

Named for the father of Tajik literature and the first president of the Tajik Academy of Sciences, the Sadriddin Aini State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater, or "Opera-Ballet" in local parlance,...

Only an hour's flight time north of the Afghan border, last year over 170,000 coalition soldiers passed through Manas en route to Operation Enduring Freedom there. Many spend only a day or two...