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First envisioned in 2011 by the United States Department of State, the New Silk Road Initiative supports regional integration with a primary focus on building links between Afghanistan and neighboring countries.

In remarks to the Jamestown…

UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) has gone to great lengths to extoll the cultural value of the Silk Road. This "Cultural Heritage of the Silk Road on the Map" casts the "Silk Road" as having influence over a…

Sea as Land: Infrastructure, Politics and Oil in the Caspian Sea

In order to protect the monument in Zaporozhie from "leninopad," an activist dressed the statue in a traditional Ukranian shirt ("vyshivanka").

Anti-Russian protesters in Ukraine's second-largest city, Kharkiv, topple a huge statue of Vladimir Lenin. One protester explains why.

Railroads from China to Europe

This is J. N. Delisle's 1728 map of the Caspian Sea, published in St. Petersburg as part of I. K. Kirilov's "Russischer Atlas" (1745).