re: #177 Barefoot Grin

For the video, “Meet the Stans,” try simonreeve.co.uk. Reeve is the journalist who created the docu. Maybe you can find it elsewhere.

He visited Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, meeting Muslim dissidents, drug warlords, border patrols, and just regular people. Plus he visited Samarkand (nearly devoid of people), Tashkent, a gold mine, oil fields, former Soviet radioactive waste dumps, and what’s left of the Aral Sea, among other places. It’s worth watching if you can manage it.