Browse Items (453 total)

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…

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…

a history of the Lenin statue in Kiev (toppled in December 2013)

Oil and gas pipelines in Central Asia. Note: The Kazakhstan-Chinese pipeline (green) from Atyrau (north of Aktau) to China is finished by now

Satirical animation about an architect who designs a beautiful building only for it to be made increasingly bland by each bureaucrat he sees, so by the time they are built, it is just a generic apartment block.

"A Guide to Berlin" is a short story written by Vladimir Nabokov in 1925 in Berlin. The first English translation was published inThe New Yorkeron March 1, 1976.

In this New York Review of Books piece, Vladimir Sorokin reflects on the symbolism of the toppled monuments, drawing parallels and making distinctions between how it was done in Russia in 1991 and in Ukraine in 2014, and raising the question of what…