Children Of Independence: A Kyrgyz Family's Tale Of 30 Years In Russia

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"We're seen as foreigners here, and in Kyrgyzstan they see us as Russians," says Abdikhamit Saparov after 30 years of life in Yekaterinburg. Kyrgyzstan has just marked three decades since declaring independence after the collapse of the Soviet Union. His three daughters have all grown up in the city, and none of them is planning to live in the "old country."