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Norouz video by @RadioAzadi’s Sayedjan Sabawoon: People across Central Asia, the Caucasus, and the Middle East are celebrating Norouz, the Persian New Year, which marks the coming of spring. In Kabul, Afghans gathered at a fair full of music, rides, and food, while young men dressed in green, the traditional spring color, to try to kiss a holy flagpole raised during each Norouz.
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![Putting A Stop To Kyrgyz Bride Kidnapping
With marriage on his mind, a man in his twenties chooses a young woman and arranges her kidnapping. He then seizes the woman in the streets, and takes her to his home, where she is pressured to consent to the marriage by the man’s family…[READ MORE]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly95cfmhnX1qkgi6go1_500.jpg)
Putting A Stop To Kyrgyz Bride Kidnapping
With marriage on his mind, a man in his twenties chooses a young woman and arranges her kidnapping. He then seizes the woman in the streets, and takes her to his home, where she is pressured to consent to the marriage by the man’s family…[READ MORE]
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![Literature And Empire: Scholar Susan Layton Discusses Russia’s ‘Literary Caucasus’
Where did Russia’s stereotypes of the Caucasus come from? Susan Layton’s book “Russian Literature and Empire: Conquest of the Caucasus from Pushkin to Tolstoy” provides part of the answer.
The book explores Russia’s long and complicated literary and political engagement with the Caucasus. How did Russian writers imagine and portray the Caucasus? To what extent did literature underwrite empire-building? How was Russia’s own identity formed vis-à-vis its imperial expansion? [READ MORE]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lupbt2SjB91qkgi6go1_500.jpg)
Literature And Empire: Scholar Susan Layton Discusses Russia’s ‘Literary Caucasus’
Where did Russia’s stereotypes of the Caucasus come from? Susan Layton’s book “Russian Literature and Empire: Conquest of the Caucasus from Pushkin to Tolstoy” provides part of the answer.
The book explores Russia’s long and complicated literary and political engagement with the Caucasus. How did Russian writers imagine and portray the Caucasus? To what extent did literature underwrite empire-building? How was Russia’s own identity formed vis-à-vis its imperial expansion? [READ MORE]
