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Silk Road countries and their trade partners. Data source: CIA Factbook

A (very sketchy) map of a series of international new Silk Road initiatives since 1998.

Site map of the World Cultural Heritage (WHC attachment to the site page) overlaid with the historical Silk Road map from (item 959) report;

the timeline of toppled Lenin statues in Ukraine

a map showing the statues of Lenin still standing after Leninopad in Ukraine

This map is part of a larger project by Bulgarian designer Yanko Tsvetkov to map (and thereby expose) cultural prejudices around the world. For more information, see his website at http://alphadesigner.com.

This map displays the route of the Turkmenistan-China Gas Pipeline and identifies some of the major nodes (capital cities and managerial hubs) along the length of the pipeline. The chart in the bottom left-hand corner shows the dominant environmental…

This map documents the major oil and gas pipelines in Central Asia that supply China with her unceasing demand for energy resources.

An animation putting music to the words of famous Soviet children's poet Sergey Mikhalkov, "The tram was number 10" tells the story of an old lady trying to get a seat on a very overcrowded (150 people!) tram, hindered by some oblivious pioneers.