Sentences with phrase «many central asian»

In November 2017, Central Asia's leaders likewise welcomed EU High Representative for Security and Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini for discussions about regional cooperation and Central Asian — EU relations.

Central Asians even see China as a hedge against potential Russian aggression; they are keenly aware that Chinese investments and Moscow's growing dependency on Beijing raise the costs to Moscow of conducting any sort of destabilization campaign in the region, along the lines of what Russia has done in Ukraine.

Kyrgyzaltyn has yet to see an offer by Chaarat Gold Holdings to acquire Kumtor mine, which is the Central Asian nation's largest gold operation.

The Central Asian nation has managed to achieve low levels of government debt, a better balance sheet and faces healthier growth prospects.

USTR's Office of South and Central Asian Affairs oversees development and implementation of U.S. trade policy and negotiation strategies for South Asia (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) and the Central Asian states (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan).

Its flock has always been multi-cultural, beginning with Greek, Syriac, Persian, Georgian, and Central Asian cultures and now extending to Turkish, North American, Western European, and Latin American peoples.

Its origins are not western, but middle eastern, central asian, and eastern european.

Four and a half million Central Asians have fled from Russia and are now living in neighboring lands.

The majority of the world's one billion Muslims are Asians and Africans living in Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria and Central Asian countries.

The Christian community there, like that found in many Central Asian countries, included at different times Jacobite (Syriac Christians of the Syrian Orthodox Church), Melkites (Syriac Christians of the Greek rites) and Armenians (of the Armenian Apostolic Church).

Except among certain tribes such as Keraits, Naimans, Merkits and Uighers (partially Christian), Christianity was only a small minority among the Central Asian people.

According to Mingana the statement of Cosmas «proves the existence of numerous Christian communities among many Central Asian people and in India.»

It is very puzzling for the historian that the Nestorian missionaries who were eager to create alphabets for Central Asian people and who helped the growth of indigenous theology among the Chinese Christians did not encourage translation of the Bible into Arabic or the Syriac liturgy into the language of the people in India.

Central Asian States (CAS) are a case in point on this successful approach.

Nestorianism spread widely in T'ang China, but only among minorities; Central Asians were usually at the heart of its communities.

Persian history from the tenth century of the Hijrah onward, in spite of transient imperial episodes on the Afghan and Central Asian borders, became more and more the history of a national state, thus anticipating a development which has become the dominant feature of present - day Islam.

The two brothers were born in Kyrgyzstan, where 62 % of Muslims told Pew they were very or somewhat concerned about extremism in the central Asian country.

And for those guests who still had room for more, the waiters served cups of strong black tea, flavored with fresh lemon and fruit preserves, along with sticky - sweet Central Asian honey - almond confections and small glasses of Georgian brandy.

Tarhana is in fact the first instant soup ever and was invented by the Central Asian Turks many moons ago; over time it spread to the neighbouring Balkans.

The most famous curries of the north are the Moghlai curries, which are a subtle blend of Indian and central Asian cuisines, and which are the heritage of the courts of the Moghul emperors.

Serve with aromatic rice with pistachios and torshi, Central Asian pickles available at Persian and Middle Eastern grocery stores.

And farther into Siberia, Chinese and Central Asian merchants have come north to the markets of Irkutsk to sell the sweet and hot peppers that grow more easily in less frigid climes.

Buckwheat is also commonly found in Central Asian foods, such as blinis, buckwheat crepes from Eastern Europe, or Kasha Varnishkes, a Slavic dish that includes herbs and pasta.

Rome extended it's reach east to include Georgia, Armenia, and several central Asian states by 66 CE, but before this time, eastern Georgia was strongly influenced by the Persians and western Georgia by the Greeks.

FRUA exists to offer hope, help and community to families formed through adoption in Eastern European and Central Asian countries.

You may have been a part of FRUA for years, and already know FRUA's promise to provide «hope, help and community for adoptive families» from across Eastern Europe and central Asian countries, not just Russia and Ukraine.

Our mission is to improve the lives of children by supporting families completed through adoption in Eastern European and Central Asian countries and, through our orphanage support efforts, to never forget the children left behind, who will grow up in those orphanages.

Help FRUA offer hope and help to families... and kids in Eastern European and Central Asian orphanages!

On the other side, Azeris probably feels more Asian due to their shared heritage with Turkey and the Central Asian Turkic countries.

As for the wider region, the prospect of renewed domination of Afghanistan by the Taliban has long worried Iran, Central Asian states, China, Russia and India.

Given a photo of Saipov and the background knowledge that he is pledged to ISIS most americans would probably place him as non-white, but perhaps the more pertinent question is asking whether americans consider central asian nationals (uzbeks, tajiks, etc.) white.

At a Track - II dialogue in New Delhi in 2012, the Kazakh Ambassador spoke repeatedly of the need to «create an attractiveness for India» in the Central Asian mind.

The Indian Mughal dynasty may have originated in Central Asia but this does not feature heavily on either the Indian or Central Asian psyche.

Subregional organisations are an example of non-Western linkages and leverages, for example the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) bringing together the Central Asian states and Russia.

Taking time out from hanging with Bono and advising Central Asian dictators on how best to spin repression and executions, His Blairness has condescended to return to British politics to tell us things.

Borough President Adams got a $ 2,270 gift from the repressive regime of Azerbaijan — whose authorities have been on a crusade against human - rights activists, jailing journalists, political activists, and human rights defenders — when he took a free trip to the Central Asian nation on their dime in August 2016, according to newly released city records.

Previous studies have shown that the common apple, Malus domestica arose from the central Asian wild apple, Malus sieversii, with contributions from crabapples along the Silk Road as it was brought west to Europe.

Similarly, GHI has won a USAID grant to improve quake safety in three Central Asian republics.

The remarkable site promised to illuminate the lives of Central Asian nomads and their close connections to the great empires of that age.

Finally, some 50,000 years ago, my haplogroup, D, appeared in the Central Asian plains and began moving throughout East Asia.

«The project got its start when blistering in the skin and mucosal membranes was detected in different parts of the body in newborn littermates of Central Asian Shepherd dogs.

Archaeologists are rediscovering the ancient Maritime Silk Road, which once powered more East - West commerce than the famed Central Asian land route.

That, along with a young man's taste for adventure, is what has repeatedly sent Wells bouncing across the Central Asian steppes in a Land Rover.

That doesn't mean those Central Asian men have inherited some interesting trait from Genghis Khan, like his fierceness or his lust.

And although the rest of Genghis Khan's genome has certainly, if Zerjal and Tyler - Smith are right, made an outsize contribution to the Central Asian gene pool, it has been chopped to bits and mixed in so thoroughly over the centuries by genetic recombination that no one today is likely to have his whole suite of genes for any particular trait.

While Wells screened the Central Asian Y chromosomes for single - nucleotide mutations such as M45, Zerjal searched for a different DNA variable called a microsatellite.

That's why a particular pattern of microsatellites can profile a particular individual — to show, for instance, as Tyler - Smith and Zerjal had done shortly before embarking on their Central Asian work, that Thomas Jefferson had fathered a son by his slave Sally Hemings and that his Y chromosome had been passed down to a man living in Pennsylvania today.

While scholars debate the relationship between the Oxus culture and other early urban settlements, there is no dispute about the importance of the Kopet - Dag as a natural highway for nomads, traders, and armies between the Central Asian steppes and the Iranian highlands.

This barren place, a site called Gonur, was once the heart of a vast archipelago of settlements that stretched across 1,000 square miles of Central Asian plains.

Small silver pins like this camel found in Gonur must have been transported across the Central Asian Desert by merchants on camels.