When, as a result of their colonial activities known as the "Great Game," [1] British India and Imperial Russia confronted each other at the Wakhan Corridor, the spectre of what would have been the First World War loomed large. Fortunately, there was no war. The contestants coexisted. Read more

Chingiz Torekulovich Aitmatov, non-Russian prose writer and diplomat, was born on December 12, 1928, to Torekul and Nagima Aitmatov in the village of Sheker (Talas Valley, Kirov district). Read more