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Seattle and Tashkent's Unlikely Sisterhood
Duration:8min
In 1973, the US port renowned for rain and the Soviet-run capital in semi-arid Central Asia could hardly have appeared more different, but what began then as the first US-Soviet sister city pairing has blossomed into 43 years of mutual enrichment and heartfelt friendship—at first despite the Cold War, and later boosted by Seattle’s economic growth and Uzbekistan’s independence.
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Video by Steve Shelton
Read the full story here.
Video by Steve Shelton
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