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The silk economy buttresses the pensions of many housewives in rural Uzbekistan.

The mass incarceration of Muslims in China is increasingly a Kazakhstan story.

The audience was enthusiastic about the unusual pairing.

The first woman to lead a Central Asian country discussed China, her successors’ rivalry, and regrets from her time in office.

Tajikistan once had a wine industry of some repute.

As the partying carried on into the night, locals’ wariness faded and they joined in the fun.

Before the herders could set to rounding up the animals, a panicked crowd rushed across the plain, up and over a nearby hill.

When the Russian national anthem was played before the game, people sang along with the words of the Soviet hymn.

Hostility follows many Russian-speaking LGBT asylum seekers to New York.

“Sargsyan and the Republicans are one and the same, he is just a puppet,” one protester said.

"With this victory, we paid our deepest respects to the victims of the Armenian genocide," said protest leader Nikol Pashinyan.

The arrest at first seem to push the protesters back on their heels, but by evening they regrouped and held a massive rally in central Yerevan.

Paschal bread is the tastiest aspect of Easter in Georgia and much of the Eastern Orthodox world.

Qyrq Qyz features traditional music on an unmistakably 21st century stage.

"They purposely pick rural areas, where people are not so savvy."

At least 15 homeless people died of exposure in Bishkek last month.

A Eurasianet Interview with Mikheil Saakashvili

Pankisi’s female Sufi mystics hope that their dhikr rituals will encourage the outside world to think of peace, rather than war.

While many residents in villages - some less than 300 meters from the frontline - decided to remain, others fled the fighting.

Nearly a year and a half after war in eastern Ukraine with Russia and Russian-backed separatists forced over a million people to flee their homes, the Ukrainian government is still relying on hundreds of volunteers to provide help.

“Pecunia non olet (“Money does not smell”),” staff tells you at a museum dedicated to the history of toilets in Kyiv, Ukraine.