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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From the Shadows Into the Snow: Smuggling Into Iran

March 23, 2009 - 12:00pm

by: Jonathan Lewis

Turkey

Mustafa and his son, Ekin, are among the seasoned smugglers who have made numerous nighttime crossings over the mountainous Turkish-Iranian border to procure petrol in Iran for resale in Turkey....
Opera and Ballet Theater in Dushanbe Reopens for Novouz

March 20, 2009 - 1:00pm

by: David Trilling

Tajikistan

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,...
Aman-Plus Serves a Beacon of Hope

February 19, 2009 - 12:00pm

by: David Trilling

Kyrgyzstan

Aman-Plus is a support center based in Bishkek where those with substance abuse problems can obtain clean needles, a bed and help readjust to a mainstream existence. Many of the clients in the...
Manas Serves As Transit Center to War in Afghanistan

February 5, 2009 - 12:00pm

by: David Trilling

Kyrgyzstan

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...
Manas Airbase Key to US and NATO Operations in Afghanistan

February 2, 2009 - 8:00pm

by: David Trilling

Kyrgyzstan

Opened in December 2001, the Transit Center at Manas serves as the main US and NATO military staging base for troops entering and departing the conflict in Afghanistan. The US Air Force military...
Kyrgyz Music and Horse Races Highlight Festival

November 7, 2008 - 12:00pm

by: David Trilling

Kyrgyzstan

The small village of Korgundu Bulak high in Kyrgyzstan's Tian Shan Mountains featured the special Kyrgyz horse in a festival designed to demonstrate the abilities of the breed in its native...
Neolithic Site in Eastern Turkey Hints at Birth of Agriculture

September 12, 2008 - 1:00pm

by: Dean C.K. Cox

Turkey

High atop the Anatolian Plain near the border with Syria a rare archaeological site may be revealing new clues to the origins of human farming. Klaus Schmidt, a German archaeologist who has been...
Urban Renewal Pits Istanbul Residents Against City Hall

June 20, 2008 - 1:00pm

by: Yigal Schleifer

Turkey

A city initiative of urban renewal in the Sulukule neighborhood of Istanbul has reduced many of the crumbling buildings into piles of rubble to make room for new high rise buildings and businesses...
Iran's Natanz Nuclear Facility Revealed During President Visit

May 5, 2008 - 1:00pm

by: Drew Leifheit

Iran

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad makes a public visit on April 8, 2008, to Natanz - a secretive desert uranium-enrichment facility - where he viewed the country's latest technologies used to...
Mongolia: Road to Capitalism

April 18, 2008 - 1:00pm

by: Nick Hannes

Mongolia

For most people Mongolia is synonymous with the vast steppe, galloping horses and nomadic felt tents. Reality is less idyllic. In the least populated country of the world, about half of the 2.6...

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