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From a pragmatic point of view, yurt is just a folding, portable house. From a historical and emotional point of view - an area, where many generations of nomads were born and

died. The Kyrgyz treat it as something sacred. By the way, the upper part of a yurt became the state symbol which is seen on the flag of Kyrgyzstan.

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Boundary is a verge of all native. A thin green stem. Two steps aside is a similar one, but

not yours already. Photos from a high-altitude post Irkeshtam in Kyrgyzstan.

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This is Kyrgyzstan, the north of the country, alpine area. It is the residence of nomadic stock-breeders and a transit area for

tourists. At least it have been so before the revolution. In the picture: nomad camp. Taken in September, 2009.

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Kyrgyzstan is a place where Russian nature is gently replaced by the Eastern, and the cultures also

interweave. Here is a photo report containing shots of different places of the republic.

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So, as was said before the coup was fast, the clashes went thru and stopped and now the city stays quite with the streets deserted, with new people in power. Street

scenery still though can give a clue what was going on last evening, during the protests, the violence, the looting that was all over thru the town.

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Maybe a lot of you have seen a lot of news reports about clashes in Kyrgyzstan, ex Soviet Russian republic. It was pretty bloody like 40 people dead and 200 wounded, but not

long, until the evening they report all was over, the main policeman killed and the president fled the country on a private jet with a group of supporters.

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