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The Dragon and the Bear on the Roof of the World. A young foreman from a construction site queues at the SIM-card desk of the glitzy Tcell shop in Tajikistan’s capital, Dushanbe. He’s well-dressed, drenched in perfume, and trailed by three Chinese.
In Aeroflot - Fly Soviet (Fuel publishing), author Bruno Vandermueren presents a stunning visual history of the carrier, which by the late 1950s was bigger than American Airlines.
Though some progress demarcating the Kyrgyz-Tajik border has been made since deadly ethnic violence earlier this year, a recent comment by Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov threatens to sour tensions further.