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UZBEKISTAN: ARTIST'S WORK CHRONICLES THE DISAPPEARING ARAL SEA
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Marina Kozlova for Asian Water Wire
Inter Press Service English News Wire
03-15-2006
TASHKENT, Mar. 15, 2006 (IPS/GIN) -- "We cannot save the Aral
and soon you will be able to see it only in pictures," claims Uzbek
painter Rafael Matevosyan, whose work has portrayed Central Asia's
shrinking and dying Aral Sea for more than 40 years.
Matevosyan, 82, came to the Aral -- an inland sea between
Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan -- in 1962 and has since depicted it in
hundreds of paintings.
In those days, the Aral was the world's fourth-largest inland
body of water -- after the Caspian Sea between Europe ...
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