Hunted through Central Asia: On the Run from Lenin's Secret Police
Perhaps one of the most powerful and haunting media images of the end of the 20th century was that of one lone man in a white shirt in front of tanks in Tiananmen Square. more...
Global Security Watch - Central Asia
Home to vast energy reserves … central front in the fight against global terrorism … potential Western allies in RussiaÕs backyard. Together, the independent nations of Central Asia—former Soviet republics Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, plus Afghanistan—comprise one of the most important, least understood regions of the world. more...
Childr en of Armenia: A Forgotten Genocide and the Century-Long Struggle for Justice
Holocausts will always have their deniers. But try to imagine a world in which every post-Nazi German government for the last six decades refused to assume any national responsibility for war crimes committed against the Jews, arguing that "lives were lost on both sides," denying that there had been a policy of genocide in the first place and even prosecuting and jailing German historians who wrote about it. more...
Cent ral Asia’s Second Chance
Central Asia’s Second Chance by Martha Brill Olcott Washington, D.C.:Carnagie Endoment for the International Peace, 2005. 387 pages, price: Rs.$50,00 . The paper is much again getting currency in the international contemporary context. U.S is fighting unending war in the entire Islamic world wherever, there is tremendous resources available. This could be in the form of terrorism flushing out posing a great threat to the PAX-Americana or something else for the civilised society of the comity of the nations. more... Apples Are from Kazakhstan: The Land that Disappeared
 Closed to foreigners under Tsar and Soviet rule, Kazakhstan has remained largely hidden from the world, a remarkable feat for a country the size of Western Europe. Few would guess that Kazakhstan—a blank in Westerners' collective geography—turns out to be diverse, tolerant, and surprisingly modern, the country that gave the world apples, trousers, and even, perhaps, King Arthur.
Christopher Robbins is the author of five non-fiction books, including the award-winning The Empress of Ireland. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, The New York Times, The Times Magazine (UK), the Guardian (UK), and many others. He lives in London. more... | 
