Some worry that the push for matronymics, the use of a second name derived from a person’s mother rather than their father, has enabled a concentration of presidential power. The life cycle of a ...

Much of what is written about soft power in Central Asia focuses on countries like Kyrgyzstan as passive recipients of Russian, Chinese, and American cultural influence. D Billions may flip the ...

Unesco is the United Nations' agency for education, culture, and science. In 2017, about 1.3 million tourists visited Kyrgyzstan, according to the US commerce department-affiliated export.gov website.

We will learn about the diversity of the Kyrgyz culture through mosques and orthodox churches in the city of Karakol. We begin our city tour at Victory Square, a public space built in 1985 on the ...

The excursion will see me and a group of seven (the trips are capped at 12) scale pine-laden mountains in search of lakes, and stay in a yurt camp at 3,000 metres above sea level. We will learn about ...