Horsemen tussling over goat carcasses, arrows flying across the steppe, titans hoisting logs aloft in feats of endurance. Such are the scenes as Astana – usually a staid city inhabited by ...

Kazakhstan’s planned transition to a Latin alphabet is intertwined with issues of national identity, geopolitical shifts, and post-colonial discourse. In Kazakhstan, talk about switching from the ...

Bashirov noted Almaty’s Gorky Park was then a beloved spot and a weekend haunt for collectors trading stamps and coins. Bashirov started from coins and then moved on to the wider material world of the ...