1. Russia Redux • Возвращающаяся Россия

Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (11.2011)

Not Russia, but... the Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan has long been tied to Russia, having been ceded to Tsarist Russia in a treaty with China in 1876. It was a republic during Soviet rule and became an independent country in December 1991. A poor, land-locked, mountainous country of just over 5,000,000 people, Kyrgyzstan is one of the world's six independent Turkic states. Although the country is historically Muslim, it has long been a secular state, though it is now faced with an increasingly active Islamic community and influx of Muslim missionaries. Both Russia and the U.S. have military bases in Kyrgyzstan with the U.S. base supporting U.S. military operations in Afghanistan.
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Jet on the runway at the U.S. airbase.
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Jet on the runway at the U.S. airbase.

BishkekKyrgyzstanБишкекКиргизииКыргызстанКиргизская РеспуубликаСредняя АзияRepublic of KyrgyzstanCentral Asiarusurusu photography

  • Embroidery class.
  • View of Bishkek from my hotel window.
  • What not to wear...
  • Broken fences.
  • Baby on board.
  • One's shy, the other isn't.
  • Hanging out the laundry.
  • Kids in a village near the U.S. airbase.
  • Sweeping the leaves.
  • Chicken & chicks.
  • Village home. Деревня Мраморное, переселенцы с Юга построили жилище.
  • A cow amongst the husks.
  • Sheep in a backyard.
  • Jet on the runway at the U.S. airbase.
  • Guard tower at the U.S. airbase.
  • Cemetery.
  • School in the village of Mramornoe. Школа в деревне Мраморное
  • Picking cabbages.
  • Administrative buildings in the center of Bishkek.
  • Oxana Boyko speaking with the head of self-defense volunteers (crime-watchers) in front of the Presidential Palace.
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