On December 17, 1988, the Azerbaijani National Freedom Movement began (a date the Azerbaijani people have celebrated as Revival Day since 1992). The first steps toward independence were being taken, ...
The Wakhjir Pass connects Wakhan District to China being the only border crossing. This route is one of the centuries-old trade highways, the 'Silk Route' between Central, South and East Asia, and ...
Meanwhile, in the Latvian SSR, on Latvian Soviet state television, I hosted the TV program Videorhythms. The USSR was a rather paradoxical country, and the rigidity of the order back then was ...