Boys fetch water in the town of Osh in the south of Kyrgyzstan.
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A wrestling match is held as part of a circumcision event in Arab, a village in the Fergana valley. The first prize is a huge sheep's bone.
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Money is collected for the boy's family during the circumcision event. It is placed under the hat, while the participants dance and drink vodka.
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Two shy girls in the Fergana valley.
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An Uzbek border guard patrols one of many crossings in a country where borders were drawn without consideration for the population.
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The office of the mayor of the village of Arab is decorated with a rose, the Uzbek flag and - not seen in the picture - a portrait of the Uzbek president, Islam Karimov.
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A boy in Koshkor, in the mountains in the east of Kyrgyzstan. Temperatures there can drop below zero, even in spring.
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