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Letter from Bishkek: Soviet utopia meets postmodern charm in Kyrgyzstan’s garden city capital

SHTAB: the queer communists of Bishkek bringing politics and art back together

How battle rap and streaming platforms are bridging Kyrgyz hip-hop’s elders and youth

Letter from Bishkek: Soviet utopia meets postmodern charm in Kyrgyzstan’s garden city capital

SHTAB: the queer communists of Bishkek bringing politics and art back together

How battle rap and streaming platforms are bridging Kyrgyz hip-hop’s elders and youth

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Music

This is Qaravanistan: a musical outpost on the modern Silk Road

17 December 2021

Architecture

Bishkek’s multi-faith wedding palace is a futuristic, grandiose atheist temple | Concrete Ideas

4 October 2021

Art & Culture

12 artworks that shaped Kyrgyzstan’s art scene for the past 30 years

29 September 2021

Architecture

From Tallinn to Turkmenistan, is there more to post-independence architecture than big business and ‘exotic kitsch’?

19 August 2021

Architecture

The twisted fate of Bishkek’s treasured UFO-like Soviet-era circus | Concrete Ideas

26 July 2021

Art & Culture

Punk Orientalism: how the art of rebellion in Central Asia is challenging the scars of the Soviet past

12 May 2021

Mightier than the sword: the political artist capturing rage and resistance in Kyrgyzstan

26 March 2021

Books

100 books to read from Eastern Europe and Central Asia

16 February 2021

Portfolio

From CGI to exchanging houseplants, these creatives are pushing the boundaries of what art is

23 October 2020

Inspiration

I spent 600 days walking the Silk Road, seeing the Caucasus and Central Asia by foot

20 October 2020

Innovation

Kyrgyz developers have created a video game to fight bride-kidnapping

12 October 2020

Artists

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12 October 2020

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