The 52-year-old former sports teacher will join the millions of ethnic Russians who have left Central Asia since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union -- dismayed by shrinking job opportunities ...

Where things get even more complicated is the Imperial Russian conquests of Central Asia in the 19th century, which brought a steady influx of ethnic Russians and lots of Russian linguistic and ...

Many ethnic Russians in Central Asia went to work in heavy industry For centuries the region was seen as something of a land of opportunity, a kind of "Wild East" to be tamed and civilised. Many ...

For many decades, Soviet authorities encouraged intermarriage between ethnic groups as part of a social engineering project aimed at building a Soviet nation, one free of ethnic or racial biases.

The 52-year-old former sports teacher will join the millions of ethnic Russians who have left Central Asia since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union — dismayed by shrinking job opportunities ...

Many ethnic Russians in Central Asia share the same story. Their parents were sent there under the Soviet Union to develop agriculture in the steppes of Kazakhstan, extract raw materials from the ...

Unable to find work and feeling increasingly isolated from her relatives, Tatiana Lopatina finally has decided it is time to pack-up and move from Kazakhstan to her ancestral homeland: Russia. The ...