Archive: March 31st, 2011

One confusing feature in Kyrgyzstan is that since independence there has been a tendency to change place names, especially from the older Russian version to new Kyrgyz names.  In many cases the new name is a form of an even older Kyrgyz name – but not always.  In a way, this is isn’t altogether surprising.  [...]

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