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How a drab Soviet metropolis became Central Asia’s capital of cool
A few years after independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, the national capital was moved to Astana. Losing that revered status was a wake-up call for the city. Rather than sulk about the snub ...
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The Soviets sent most of its intellectuals to remote gulags. Decades later, those areas became more prosperous
A new study reveals that regions near Soviet GULAG camps are more prosperous today, thanks to the unintended legacy of ...