For more than 40 years, the founder of the Soviet Union has been overlooking the Kirov reservoir in Kyrgyzstan, 15 kilometres from the Kazakh border. And it doesn’t look like he’s going anywhere soon…

Credit: Gregoire Ader (France)

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