In the late 1970s, Central Asia could seem to some like just another stagnating Soviet backwater. News of the day praised economic achievements that weren't real — just as local communist leaders ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Several cities around the globe have reinvented themselves in recent years, but none more successfully than Almaty. Since the ...
The post-Soviet republics fear that a prolonged conflict will wreck their regional connectivity and economic development ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The bright Ascension Cathedral is one of Almaty’s landmark buildings - getty I was standing outside the grand Stalin-era Science ...
ALMATY, Kazakhstan -- In Central Asia's two biggest countries,Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, modernist reformers who were repressed in the early Soviet period are now being celebrated in documentaries, ...
Bishkek hosted the first Eurasian Economic Forum on May 26. In addition to an address from Russian President Vladimir Putin via videoconference, there were a number of panel discussions about ...
On the facade of an apartment block in Tajikistan’s capital Dushanbe, a giant mosaic depicting cosmonauts and engineers celebrates the scientific triumphs of the Soviet Union. Like so many other ...
Today we take a break from the serious and often depressing international news beat to bring you the sound's of Soviet Central Asia in the 1970's and 80's. Our Moscow correspondent introduces us to an ...