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Women selling bread in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, 2000 by Bruno Barbey (source)

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A school in Mokok, Dagestan, Russia by Ilyas Hajji (source)

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Kakhib, Dagestan, Russia by Ilyas Hajji (source)

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Xinjiang, 2007-2014, from Wild Pigeon by Carolyn Drake (source)

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Xinjiang, 2007-2014, from Wild Pigeon by Carolyn Drake (source)

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Contemporary Uzbek fashion: 'Where history meets creativity', the best of Uzbekistan Fashion Week 2024 (photos by Anna Rakhmatova, Anastasiia Buslova, and Ilya Semendeev, source) Featured: Anor, LALI, Suhrob Habib, Salma Couture, L’armoire

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Contemporary Uzbek fashion: a Zukhra Inat design for Moel Bosh at Uzbekistan Fashion Week 2024 (photo by Anna Rakhmatova, source)

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Contemporary Russian fashion: Surepka

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Contemporary Russian fashion: Masha Adrianova (photographer unknown, source)

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Contemporary Russian fashion: ДИЛ

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A delegation of priests from the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church visit the Troitse-Sergieva Lavra, Sergiev Posad, Russia (photographer unknown, source)

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The Ark fortress of Bukhara, Uzbekistan by Hassan Kurbanbaev (source)

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3rd March 2024: Divine Liturgy at the Moscow Theological Academy, Troitse-Sergieva Lavra, Sergiev Posad, Russia (photographer unknown, source)

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Kourpashas, traditional Uzbek carpets, which adorn the homes of every household, dry in the sun in Moynaq, Karakalpakstan, western Uzbekistan.

By Timur Karpov (source)

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Believers in an Orthodox church in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, by Theodore Kaye (source)

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A building-size portrait of Tajik president Emomali Rahmon is dwarfed by a Soviet-era statue of Lenin in the eastern outpost of Murghab in Tajikistan

By Theodore Kaye (source)

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Kheleturi, Botlikhsky District, Dagestan, Russia, 2021 Screenshots from a video by Mariat Abdulkhamidova (source)