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One explanation for the continued dominance of Russian lies in Kazakhstan’s rural-urban divide.

The Ministry of Culture issued a new statement responding to international criticism of an earlier announcement that it intended to “remove” Armenian “forgeries” from churches on its territory.

The minister of culture said that a working group will be set up to identify what he called “Armenian forgery” from churches, putting into practice a pseudoscientific theory that denies the churches’ Armenian origin.

A charismatic, handicapped singer has gone viral, triggering appearances with Russian superstars and a member of the ruling family.

The unfinished structure was the result of a brief period of direct Roman control over Armenia in the second century CE.

The project is intended to partially bridge the language knowledge gap with Russian.

Geneticists say the popular vegetable was first domesticated in the region.

But Russians are more ambivalent about having a Tajik-born singer represent them at the song contest.

Manizha Sangin emigrated to Russia with her family at age three, during the Tajik civil war.

Protesting artists chose the visit of their better-paid Russian colleagues to make their point.

A new documentary on a Soviet soccer star also tells the story of Central Asia’s ethnic Korean community, which was deported en masse to the region by Stalin.

Fears are growing in particular for Armenian monuments being handed over.

The conspiracy involved many players from around the former Soviet Union who have previous records of match fixing.

The roots of today’s revival are found in the late 1960s and early ‘70s, when circles of nonconformist creative youth emerged in cities like Kyiv and Lviv.

The new government has embraced the New York show while underplaying the role played by its political enemies.