• Poverty and prejudice afflict Central Asian migrants in Moscow

    An interesting story from the Washington Post, reprinted here in the Seattle Times, focussing on the lifestyle of Tajik and Uzbek migrants working in Moscow. Nation & World | Poverty, prejudice afflict migrants to Moscow | Seattle Times Newspaper. Read more

  • Starting as I hope to go on…

    Hello, and welcome to my blog!  All the advice I’ve read about starting a blog says you should focus on one area you’re particularly interested in. Well, I’ve got a lot of quite different interests so I’ve chosen to focus on two areas, which do sometimes overlap: 1. Central Asia and the post-Soviet world One… Read more