Two men read stories about violence against women at an exhibition in Yerevan's Charles Aznavour Square organized on November 29 by the Women's Rights Center.
The exhibition aimed to raise public awareness of domestic violence in Armenia and how to prevent it. Cutout silhouettes of nine women attached with true stories of domestic violence were arranged in the square for pedestrians to view.
Anahit Hayrapetyan is a freelance photojournalist based in Yerevan.
A boy plays outside his home in central Ashgabat. Satellite dishes abound in Turkmenistan, providing residents access to Russian and Turkish news. Since the Russian state-controlled media's apparent interference in Kyrgyzstan and Belarus this year, observers in Ashgabat suggest the satellites give the Kremlin a quiet lever of power over the country.
David Trilling is EurasiaNet's Central Asia editor.
Hundreds of Uzbek students attended the International Education Fair at Tashkent International School in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, on Nov. 13, to seek advice on how to apply for international universities and colleges, fill out grant and scholarship documents and prepare for entrance exams.
The fair, sponsored by the US Department of Education and US State Department, is in its fourth year as part of Uzbekistan's International Education Week. The British Council, the Goethe Institute, the Victor Hugo French Cultural Center and Westminster International University also participated.
According to the US embassy in Uzbekistan, enrollment of Uzbek students in US colleges and universities increased 28 percent from 2008 to 2009. About 672,000 international students attended schools and higher education in the United States in 2009.
The "dry bridge" market in Tbilisi has gotten smaller over the years, but it remains a kitsh-conscious tourist's best spot to find everything from Georgian daggers to Soviet matchbook sets. A recent trip revealed some Georgian-language typewriters featuring the nation's unique alphabet.
Vladic Ravich is a freelance photojournalist based in Turkey.
A girl sits in a still-unnamed cafe opened inside the house of Nikolas Lutidze in Tbilisi. Similar home-based bars and cafes have been springing up throughout the Georgian capital in recent months.
Vladic Ravich is a freelance photojournalist based in Turkey.
Air temperatures in the single digits don't deter swimmers at the Issyk-Ata hot springs in northern Kyrgyzstan. The malodorous, sulfur-infused water lures weekenders of all ages to the Soviet-era sanatorium some two hours from Bishkek.
David Trilling is EurasiaNet's Central Asia editor.
Tourists visit the crashing waterfall at the Church of St. Simon the Apostle in Novy Afon in the breakaway region of Abkhazia. The town and Novy Afon Monastery is a popular attraction for pilgrims and Russian tourists.
Security officials guard a protest rally at the headquarters of the Ata-Jurt party in Bishkek, where several dozen people stormed the building and set fire to campaign literature from the Ata-Jurt party outside the building. Several women held posters with photos of relatives and friends killed during the April events in Bishkek that led to the ouster of former Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev.
