The Uyghurs, a Turkic people comprising a major part of the population of the Xinjang-Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR), China, also have sizable communities in the former Soviet Central Asian Republics, especially in Kazakhstan, where they numbered 220,000 in 1999 (altogether the Uyghur population in the newly independent states numbers more than 300,000)...
Academic conference in memory of Vsevolod L. Vikhnovich (1937‒2022) will take place on October 29, 2024 (Tuesday) at the IOM RAS (Green Hall). The conference program is now available.