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Uzbek Border Guards Kill Kyrgyz Civilian

After reporting that the Uzbek/Kyrgyz border was tense, Radio Liberty reported on June 11 that Uzbek border guards killed an ethnic Uzbek who was a Kyrgyz citizen. The guards said that he was crossing the border illegally and did not stop when they told him to. Another Kyrgyz citizen, villagers reported, has been missing for over a week since he went looking for his horse near the border.

 

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Elina Galperin

Elina Galperin was born in Minsk, Belarus and grew up in Brooklyn, NY. After graduating from Stuyvesant High School in 2004, she attended the University of Massachusetts at Amherst where she majored in History and Russian Studies. After finishing her senior thesis on the politics of education among the Kazakhs in the late Imperial period, she graduated in February 2008. In September 2010, she received a Masters of Arts Degree in History, having passed qualifying exams on the Russian and Ottoman empires in the 18th and 19th centuries. In Fall 2011, she advanced to doctoral candidacy, having passed exams in four fields: Russian Empire, Ottoman Empire, Soviet Union, Mongol Empire, focusing on administrative practices and empire-building.

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