In the Issyk-Kul region of Kyrgyzstan, tradition is king. Polo's still played with a freshly killed goat and the men still marry their women the old-fashioned way: by abducting them off the street and forcing them to be their wife. Bride kidnapping is a supposedly ancient custom that's made a major comeback since the fall of Communism and now accounts for nearly half of all marriages in some parts.

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Documentary shedding light on the emotional fallout of the murder of Sarah Payne, the eight-year-old...

One of the highest achievements of the new wave of Kirghiz cinema, which emerged in the mid-1960s. T...
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The story of the freed female hostages of Boko Haram, detailing their lives in captivity and since t...

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