A Soviet-era Central Asian pop music anthology shines a light on the region's ethnic diversity and music that transcends genres from Korean brass bands to Uyghur garage rock to Crimean jazz.

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By Clare Nuttall in Almaty In the changing world order, Kazakhstan continues to pursue the multi-vector foreign policy that ...

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(THE CONVERSATION) Victoria Lomasko, a graphic artist and muralist, has spent her career documenting how authoritarianism took hold in Vladimir Putin’s Russia. What she has illustrated – as well as ...

A woman’s face emerges from the many exposed layers of plaster. The cheeks have lost their glow. The crack that cuts through ...

Sometimes I want to recreate the paintings I left behind,” said Artsiv Lalayan, one of tens of thousands of Armenians displaced by Azerbaijan, “but it’s impossible to recreate what you’ve lost.” ...