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.
The former U.S. ambassador recalls an economy in free-fall in the 1990s, with American assistance programs not "as efficient or productive as we had hoped."
Today celebrated for blending classical music with Turkish folk tunes, Anjelika Akbar’s education was strictly Soviet, intolerant to non-classical styles.