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Kazakhstan

A BORDER FIVE THOUSAND YEARS IN THE MAKING

The Story of How War, Diplomacy, and Trade Shaped the Kazakh–Chinese Border

~ 15 min read
Interviews

THE MONGOLS AND THE KIPCHAKS

Why Did the Mongol Elite of the Golden Horde Adopt Turkic Language?

~ 6 min read
People

ONE HUNDRED YEARS ON THE PITCH

How Kazakhstan Fell in Love with Football and Made It Its Own

~ 9 min read

The Evolution of the ‘Toi’

How the Kazakh Wedding Survived Revolution, Bans, and a Changing World

~ 18 min read

FROM SAUKELE TO VEILS AND BACK

What Kazakh Brides Traditionally Wore on Their Wedding Day

~ 13 min read

CENTRAL ASIA: FROM EMPIRE TO SOVIET RULE

Historian Adeeb Khalid on Colonialism, Nation-Building, and the Enduring Myths That Shape Our Understanding of the Region

~ 11 min read

PASSPORTS, INNS, AND EXPRESS DELIVERY IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY

What Travel Was Really Like on the Silk Road—and Why It Was Far More than a Caravan Highway

~ 16 min read

THE MAGIC OF METAL

From Ancient Rituals to Modern Technology: How Copper Became an Essential Part of Nomadic Culture

~ 12 min read
East

TURKS AT THE HEAD OF IRAN

Historian Giorgio Rota on Who the Safavids Were and Why They Fought the Ottomans

~ 7 min read
Central Asia

FROM THE ARAL TO THE MEDITERRANEAN

How Nomads from Central Asia Changed the Medieval Middle Eas

~ 10 min read
Kazakhstan

DO YOU KNOW WHERE MY CHILDREN ARE?

The Famine in Kazakhstan and the Search for Missing Relatives

~ 7 min read
Kazakhstan

KAZAKHSTAN AND XINJIANG

Lecture 5. Kazakhs Between Two Empires

~ 14 min read
People

ABLAI KHAN—UNIFIER OF THE KAZAKH LANDS

How a Camel-Herding, ‘Shaggy-Haired’ Youth Rose to Become a Great Khan

~ 23 min read
Interviews

ATATÜRK: FROM JADIDISM TO INDEPENDENCE

Historian Konuralp Ercilasun on the Turkish War of Independence and the influence of Turkic intellectuals

~ 8 min read
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People

How Humanity Learned to Fly

The Long Journey from Myth to Reality

~ 1 min read
People

THE FATHER OF NATIONAL ART

Akhmet Jubanov and the Rise of Kazakh Professional Music

~ 18 min read
Central Asia

THE MAKING OF CENTRAL ASIA’S MODERN BORDERS

The Turbulent Story of the National-Territorial Delimitation of 1924

~ 16 min read
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Certificate of Registration of a Periodical Print and Online Publication No. KZ04VPY00140219. Issued on January 26, 2026, by the Information Committee of the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Kazakhstan.