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Secret Stans

Guardian Cities explores the cities of the former Soviet Stans of Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan 

20 October 2017

  • Türkmenistanyň paýtagtyna degişme hökmünde ‘ölüleriň şäheri’ hem diýilýär. Fotosurat: Giles Clarke/Getty Images

    Aziýanyň iň awtoritar şäheri bolan Aşgabatda: 'Adamlar söz aýtmakdan hem gorkýar'

    Stanislav Volkov
  • A street scene from Dushanbe

    ‘The decline of Russian dominance is striking’: readers respond from the Stans

  • Бинои почтаи марказии шаҳри Душанбе (акси дар боло овардашуда соли 1937) вайрон карда шуд. Ба ҷойи он бинои нави баландошёна дар ҳолати сохт қарор дорад. Аксбардор: Соҳибкор: Ғаффур Шерматов

    Душанбеи харобшаванда: чӣ гуна собиқ шаҳри Сталинобод аз гузаштаҳои шӯравии тоза мегардад

  • Bishkek LGBT club

    Биз баарыбыз кайсы бир даражада курмандыктарбыз':Эмнеге Бишкектеги гей клубтар жабылды

  • A puppy for Putin – but for dogs in Turkmenistan it's open slaughter

  • Missing murals: the lost Soviet art of the Stans

19 October 2017

  • Bishkek LGBT club

    'All of us will be victims at some point': why Bishkek's only gay club closed

  • Dushanbe’s central post office has been demolished. A new skyscraper is under under construction on the site.

    Demolishing Dushanbe: how the former city of Stalinabad is erasing its Soviet past

18 October 2017

  • Astana, Kazakhstan

    Astana's plan to stay warm in the winter? Build a ring of one million trees

    In 1997 the Kazakh president launched a plan to protect his new capital from the icy winds of the featureless steppes with a ring of trees. Twenty years on his scientists are still struggling to grow forests in a spot where no trees stood
  • Женщина проходит мимо золотой статуи первого президента Туркменистана Сапармурата Ниязова в столице Ашхабад. Фотограф: Валерий Шарифулин / ТАСС

    Будущее статусного города? Может ли Алматы отбросить систему контроля

    В городах пяти бывших Советских республик, “Станы”, доминировали личности их авторитарных правителей, но старинная столица Казахстана - Алматы - пытается развиваться, базируясь на нуждах своих горожан, хотя делает это упорядоченно

    • ‘Men qutida yashashni istamayman’: Odamlar Toshkent obod bo’lishi uchun o’z uyidan ko’chirilmoqda

    • Tashkent City: is 'progress' worth the price being paid in Uzbekistan?

    • Every shade of beige: Soviet-era sanatoriums – in pictures

17 October 2017

  • A shot of Tashkent, the capital city of Uzbekistan, from Hassan Kurbanbaev's 2016 photography series tashkent.DOC. Kurbanbaev is a self-taught photographer who documents the people and places of his home city.

    Insta-stans: the cities of post-Soviet Central Asia captured on Instagram

  • A girl does her school homework. Children in the Bishkek ‘new-build’ area of Ak-Zhar must travel to neighbouring areas to attend classes.

    Life in limbo: inside Bishkek's illegal 'new-builds'

  • Астана, Қазақстанның елордасы, осыдан 20 жыл бұрын ресми түрде ел елордасы болып аталған. Сурет: Таймас Алмұқанов

    'Норман бізге президент пирамида салынуын қалайды деп айтты'

  • Astana, capital city of Kazakhstan, was inaugurated 20 years ago.

    'Norman said the president wants a pyramid': how starchitects built Astana

16 October 2017

  • The five-star Yyldyz Hotel in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.

    The iron, the melon and the jug: the weirdest Stans buildings – in pictures

    From Ashgabat’s falcon-shaped airport to Dushanbe’s giant flagpole, and more than a few Eyes of Sauron, the Stans don’t shy away from eye-popping architecture
  • The capital of Turkmenistan is jokingly referred to as the ‘city of the dead’.

    'People are afraid to say a word': inside the closed city of Ashgabat

    Stanislav Volkov
    When Stanislav Volkov began reporting for the Alternative Turkmenistan News, the secret service cut his internet and threw acid at him – all for daring to describe the harsh reality of daily life in this notoriously reclusive capital
  • A woman walks past a gold statue of the first president of Turkmenistan, Saparmurat Niyazov, in the capital city of Ashgabat

    Trophy city 2.0: can the former Soviet Stans kick dictator chic?

    The cities of the five former Soviet ‘Stans’ have been dominated by the personalities of their authoritarian rulers – but in Kazakhstan’s old capital of Almaty, at least, something new is afoot
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