Petr Trotsenko is a journalist in RFE/RL's Kazakh Service.
Life in the Kazakh village where what remains of the Aral Sea still supports a tiny fishing industry and the families that depend on it.
RFE/RL photo correspondent Petr Trotsenko meets the Tajiks who depend on the Syr Darya River, a waterway that was once bled nearly dry under Soviet rule and is now under strain from power stations and agriculture.
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