Rudyard Kipling and other 19th century writers called it the Great Game: British-held India and Czarist Russia playing out their imperialist ambitions on the vast and largely uncharted black hole of Central Asia that lay between them.
More than a century later, there’s a new “Great Game” under way in Central Asia, and the prize is one of the planet’s last oil frontiers.
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