Neo-Feudalism Explained: The flight of the best and brightest from Russia is no accident. The Coffee Republic: Thomas de Waal on a dangerous drift in postwar Abkhazia. State of Disorder: Rafael Khachaturian on Russia’s ultranationalist problem. Tajikistan was home to thousands of Bukharan Jews, and conditions seemed right for it to stay that way — but the legacy of Soviet persecution and recent Central Asian ties to Iran have made Jewish life more difficult to maintain. How the US could have avoided a P.R. crisis in Kyrgyzstan. From football to fascism: In Russia, 2010 ended with an unprecedented upsurge of ultra-nationalist violence. Tamerlane Museum: Looking for a unifying history, Uzbekistan finds its answer in a 14th Century Turco-Mongol conqueror — despite the fact he wasn't Uzbek. A look at why Russian Jews are not Russian. A haunting look at what it means to be Eurasian: A review of The Eurasian Face by Kirsteen Zimmern. Long live the khan: Kazakhstan's benevolent father Nursultan Nazarbayev, very nearly eternal. From Geocurrents, an article on the survival of animism in Russia and its destruction in the West; the suicide capital of the world is the Republic of Mari El; and a look at how Siberia is more Russian than European Russia. The Philanthropist of Dagestan: The Suleiman Kerimov Foundation has disbursed around $60 million to social projects in Dagestan and Russia. A review of The Return: Russia's Journey from Gorbachev to Medvedev by Daniel Treisman.
