This is not an easy movie to see.

Nevertheless, watching this movie is to understand what it means to be human.

The movie is about Sashenka  Pozner (played by Dalen Shintemirov) who is about 8 or 9 …

On Wednesday February 3, Kazakhstan’s Secretary of State and Foreign Minister, Kanat Saudabayev spoke to a group of journalists and foreign policy community specialists at the Atlantic Council in Washington, D.C. (transcript in English and …

Photo (c) by Future Atlas
As covered in this blog and countless others, the government of Kazakhstan’s position on Borat, aka, Sasha Baron Cohen, has been one of theatrical proportions.  The embassy even went so far …

neweurasia’s Vicki, a blogger in America, has whipped up a dish of Uzbek Zharkop, “which sounded like zharkoye, so didn’t intimidate me with its difficulty, like plov usually does.” Another tasty entry in our on-going “Central Asia’s Top Chef” contest.

There are writers.  Then there are Writers.  Tom Bissell is a Writer.
Bissell joined the Peace Corps in college and was stationed in Uzbekistan.  Bissell ended up not finishing his stint, hightailing it out of the …

Guest blogger Vicki Boykis talks about the Failed States Index for 2009. Thankfully, none of the Central Asian republics have the dubious distinction of being in the top 20, but they are in the top 40. In fact, some of have improved…