This mosaic adorns the wall along Registan Avenue in Samarkand. The wall only dates from 2009 but the mosaics give it, in the eyes of tourists, a Soviet past. Despite criticism, the Uzbek government continues to remodel its tourist sites, such as currently in Bukhara.

Credits : Isabelle Vincent (France)

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