This story was modified on 9/20/10 to clarify mass attendance numbers -- Ed.
As an Armenian growing up in Basra, Iraq, Vanuhi Ohannesian was always hearing about eastern Turkey’s Lake Van region, her grandparents’ birthplace and the place after which she is named.
The Eagle Festival in Bayan Ulgii, Mongolia, is an opportunity for residents of the province, which is overwhelmingly Kazakh, to celebrate their distinct culture. The Kazakhs of western Mongolia are considered to have preserved these traditions better than Kazakhstan itself, and Bayan Ulgii can feel like a different country from the rest of Mongolia.
Across Mongolia young boys work hard on their horse racing skills during the weeks leading up to the country's summer Naadam festivals. The jockeys, some as young as 11, often work and live with a horse trainer in the countryside, taking care of the horses and practicing for the big day, when the stocky equines charge across the steppe for up to 29 kilometers (18 miles).
A senior executive with The Trump Organization tells EurasiaNet.org that he has identified a potential site for a Trump Tower in Georgia.
“I identified two projects -- one more specifically than the other -- that I think Mr. Trump will be interested in for a Trump Tower development,” said Michael Cohen, an executive
American real estate mogul Donald Trump is considering investments in Tbilisi and the Georgian port city of Batumi, a senior executive at The Trump Organization told EurasiaNet.org.
Units of the fabled French Foreign Legion are fighting in Afghanistan, operating under NATO command. More than 700 men from dozens of countries comprise the Legion's contingent.
KADEX 2010, Central Asia's first defense expo, was not just an opportunity for Kazakhstan's military and defense industries to do deals, it was also a chance for the country to show off its armed forces.
Amid a congressional probe into its fuel contracting practices at the Manas Transit Center in Kyrgyzstan, the Pentagon now appears ready to open up what has been a no-bid system for suppliers.
When the sun finally came out recently, women at a temporary camp in Shirvan, in central Azerbaijan, tried to tidy the tents they now call home, and restore a semblance of normalcy to their lives.
Inter-ethnic tension has spiked in Kyrgyzstan’s southern capital Osh, which is home to a large ethnic Uzbek minority. The lack of Uzbek representation in government agencies and law-enforcement bodies is the main source of discontent.
