And, you know, I think it's a really very interesting region. And I wanted to, you know, report on some of the stories that I see there that were not covered enough in the Western media. And that's what drew me partly what drew me to stay in Kazakhstan and continue reporting from Central Asia. Because I think, you know, when I moved to Central Asia, I noticed that often in Russia, some of the media reporting on Russia, the Western media reporting is quite cliched and broad brush and so on. But when you go to Central Asia, and you know, the media reporting is really much more so, because people understand the region so little. So I wanted to, you know, tell some of the stories and not just, you know, a lot of the reporting we do see on Central Asia tends to be geopolitical. But I wanted to also tell the human stories. And you find a lot of that in my book Dark Shadows, because I did there is a section on politics, of course, and there's also sections on history and culture, which are (10/39)
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