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Chto takoe Sredni͡ai͡a Azii͡a? Strana Ravshana i Dzhamshuta, unizhennai͡a, oskorblennai͡a, v deshevykh strazakh i iskusstvennom shelke, strana rynochnykh zadvorkov i neproiznosimykh imen voditeleĭ marshrutok?.. Ili zhe ėto strana li͡ubveobilʹnoĭ Shakherezady, skazochnogo Sindbada-morekhoda i proĭdokhi Aladdina? Sukhbat Aflatuni ne daet odnoznachnykh otvetov. Ego Azii͡a - ochenʹ raznai͡a. Vot dochʹ sadovoda, kotorai͡a posle smerti ott͡sa pomeshalasʹ i stala derevom. A vot peri - musulʹmanskai͡a raĭskai͡a "fei͡a", ėskort inostrant͡sa, priekhavshego v Rossii͡u lechitʹ razbitoe serdt͡se. A eshche - li͡ubimai͡a babushka, priletevshai͡a so zvezdy na tarelke i ostavshai͡asi͡a na zemle s muzhchinoĭ... vse oni pokhozhi na vymysel, no v kazhdom vymysle estʹ doli͡a pravdy...

What is Central Asia? Country ravshana and Dzhamshuta, humiliated, insulted, in a cheap rhinestone and faux silk, country market margins and unpronounceable names of drivers of minibuses?.. Or is it country loving Scheherazade, fabulous Sinbad the sailor and Aladdin's rascal? Suhbat of Aflatooni does not provide definitive answers. It Asia is very different. Here the daughter of a gardener, who after his father's death had a breakdown and became a tree. But peri — Muslim Paradise "fairy", the escort of a foreigner who came to Russia to treat a broken heart. And still — beloved grandmother, who arrived from the stars on the plate and left on earth with a man... they all look like fiction, but every fiction has some truth...