Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev attends Russian-Kyrgyz talks at the Grand Kremlin Palace on June 20, 2017 in Moscow, Russia

Q&A: Kyrgyzstan's President on Democracy, Islam, and Being Friends with Putin

"Putin is a person that knows how to listen."

A Kyrgyz firefighter inspects a plane crash site outside Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Jan. 16, 2017.

At Least 37 Killed in Turkish Cargo-Plane Crash in Kyrgyzstan

The Boeing 747 reportedly crashed as it tried to land in heavy fog

Kyrgyz police officers gather outside the Chinese embassy in Bishkek on August 30, 2016.

Kyrgyzstan Says Uighur Militants Ordered the Recent Blast At the Chinese Embassy

Three people were injured, and the bomber killed, in the Aug. 30 attack

Police officers gather outside the Chinese embassy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on Aug. 30, 2016. A van driven by a suicide bomber exploded after ramming through a gate.

China Will Have to Get Used to Being a Terrorist Target

Its plan to forge a trade route across Eurasia, through the dangerous terri...

Its plan to forge a trade route across Eurasia, through the dangerous territories of Afghanistan and Pakistan, will only expose Beijing to more risk

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, people gather near the site of an explosion in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2016. Kyrgyzstan's deputy prime minister says a suicide bomber rammed his car into the gate of the Chinese embassy compound in the capital Bishkek, detonating a bomb and injuring three embassy employees.

1 Dead, 3 Wounded After Explosion at the Chinese Embassy in Kyrgyzstan

The blast occurred after a vehicle rammed the embassy gates

A border town in the Fergana Valley.
Karasu, Kyrgyzstan

The Surreal World of Central Asia: Two Rivers by Carolyn Drake

For her new book, Carolyn Drake spent five years and 15 trips roaming the e...

For her new book, Carolyn Drake spent five years and 15 trips roaming the expanse of Central Asia, documenting the hardy people of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan who survived on the fringes of empires Russian and Chinese.

The photographs in this series were drawn from photographer William Daniels' Kyrgyzstan project, called Faded Tulips, which he has been working on since 2007.

2007. During Eid ul-Fitr, several thousand Muslims prayed in front of the Bishkek parliament building and a statue of Lenin.

Faded Tulips: Kyrgyzstan's Counterfeit Revolution

William Daniels shows a Kyrgyzstan as haunted by the past as it is uncertai...

William Daniels shows a Kyrgyzstan as haunted by the past as it is uncertain for its future.

Q&A: Kyrgyzstan's President on Democracy, Islam, and Being Friends with Putin

At Least 37 Killed in Turkish Cargo-Plane Crash in Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan Says Uighur Militants Ordered the Recent Blast At the Chinese Embassy

China Will Have to Get Used to Being a Terrorist Target

1 Dead, 3 Wounded After Explosion at the Chinese Embassy in Kyrgyzstan

The Surreal World of Central Asia: Two Rivers by Carolyn Drake

Faded Tulips: Kyrgyzstan's Counterfeit Revolution

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