From the Baiterek Tower, which overlooks the centre of Nur-Sultan, it is possible to observe the new architecture of the city, which houses palaces, administrations and offices. Credit: Antoine Béguier (France) Find more photos from the series here. Find all of our photos of the day here.

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Due to the low population density, the Kyrgyz state provides electricity in some of the most isolated villages of the country. Crédit: Antoine Béguier

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Les appartements de standing font de Nur-Sultan une ville difficile d’accès aux classes populaires. Expropriations, reconstructions et arrivée massive de nouveaux habitants (fonctionnaires et cadres en tête) génèrent une pression immobilière forte qui fait fuir les bas revenus de la récente capitale du Kazakhstan. Credit: Antoine Béguier (France) Find more photos from the series here.

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Tormented landscape by Lake Kel-Suu, Kyrgyzstan, a few kilometers from the Chinese border. Credit: Antoine Béguier (France) Find more of the series here. Find all of our photos of the day here.

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Three children walk across their school playground to decorate their classroom for the start of the school year. Credit: Antoine Béguier (France)

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A primary school teacher teaches her students at the start of the new school year in the remote village of Ak Shirak in Kyrgyzstan. Although the start of the school year has been postponed by 15 days due to the health crisis, the school desks are still sparsely filled. The nomadic children have not yet returned to their villages for the winter. Credit: Antoine Béguier (France) Find more of the series here. Find all of our photos of the day here.

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A young pupil waits for his first lesson in the 2021 school year. As a relic from the Soviet era, pupils in Kyrgyzstan proudly wear their uniform. The mouth-nose protection, which has fallen into oblivion throughout Kyrgyzstan, is once again becoming the norm in schools. Credit: Antoine Béguier (France) Find all of our photos of the day here.  

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In a remote village of Kyrgyzstan, the beginning of the school year 2021 took place in the pure tradition of the country: suit and tie for the boys, lace dress for the girls on the occasion of an inaugural lesson on the benefits of independence and on the greatness of Kyrgyzstan.Credit: Antoine Béguier (France)Find more photos from the series here.Find all of our photos of the dayhere.

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Portrait of a young man in the center of Bishkek, capital of Kyrgyzstan. Credit: Antoine Béguier (France)

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The state of the roads in Kyrgyzstan considerably lengthens the travel time. Permanent potholes, damaged or non-existent pavement, landslides are as many challenges offered to the drivers. Especially since sometimes, a heterogeneous traffic comes to disturb a little more the traffic. Credit: Antoine Béguier (France) Find more photos from the series here. Find all of our photos of the day here.

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Until the end of spring, many roads are inaccessible, even to the most robust of motorized vehicles. The inhabitants of many isolated villages and hamlets in Kyrgyzstan use horses as the last link between these semi-nomadic populations and the rest of the country.Credit: Antoine Béguier (France) Find more photos from the series here. Find all of our photos of the day here.

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At the end of the day, a shepherd gathers his flock, which will spend the night in a pen in Kojomkul, a small Kyrgyz village. Credit: Antoine Béguier (France) Find more photos from the series here. Find all of our photos of the day here.

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A herd of free-roaming horses graze on the early spring grass of the Kyrgyz steppes.

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In many Kyrgyz villages, small stalls allow the inhabitants to buy a multitude of daily products, from the toothbrush to the small brick of condensed milk through the washing powder.

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A man is praying alone in Hazrat Sultan Mosque in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan. It is the second largest mosque in Central Asia.

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Nurlan leaves his mountain hut to find out what is happening to his horses, which are left to roam freely on the steppes. In Kyrgyzstan, most of the mountain livestock are free to roam as they wish.

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Despite the restriction of horse breeding to collectivised farms during the communist period, Kyrgyzstan remains a major horse breeding country. Horses are bred for travel, work, equestrian sports, meat consumption and, since the 2000s, for tourist rides.

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Along the roads that cross the Kyrgyz steppes, it is common to come across cemeteries with imposing tombs. Here, a few tombs overlook the village of Kojomkul.

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Portrait after a football match in a stadium on the outskirts of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

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Merchants wait as best they can for the end of the cattle market in Naryn, Kyrgyzstan.

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