by Adelia Bahtierova | Nov 22, 2022 | Suffolk University
Ala-kachuu was once a beautiful, thoughtful practice. The so-called practice right now isn’t the tradition in its proper form; it is a horrible crime masked under the title of “tradition.” I first heard of it in 2018, when 20-year-old Burulai...
by Mikayla Penn | Oct 17, 2021 | University of Georgia
Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Kyrgyzstan was one heralded as an “island of democracy” in Central Asia. In the previous three decades, the former colony has faced a number of revolutions ending in presidential removal (Laruelle & Engvall...
