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Private farmers receive loans under a project sponsored by the OSCE Centre in Ashgabat: Ahal region, October 2004.

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The OSCE Centre in Ashgabat awards the Turkmen participants of the 4th Central Asian Festival of Ecological Journalism, December 2004.

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A view from a road near the resort area of Dilijan in northern Armenia.

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The 1988 Spitak earthquake caused great damage, killing some 25,000 people and leaving many more homeless. Here, the historic Amenaprkitch (All Savior's) Church is being rebuilt in Gyumri, Armenia's second largest city.

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The tiny Katoghike church lays hidden behind apartment buildings in central Yerevan. It was saved when it was found within a larger church that was being demolished in Soviet times.

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The effects of the 1988 Spitak earthquake, which killed some 25,000 people, can still be seen in Gyumri, Armenia's second largest city. Reconstruction is on-going.

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A market in central Yerevan offers a wide and sometimes curious selection of wood-carved and ceramic items.

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The National Art Gallery lies in the centre of Yerevan, the capital of Armenia.

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The centre of the Armenia's capital city, Yerevan.

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Just a few kilometres from Yerevan sits the hellenistic temple Garni. The temple was rebuilt in the mid 1900s from the rubble it was left in after an earthquake over 300 years ago.

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The monastery of Geghard was named after its most famous religious artifact, the lance that was said to have pierced the side of Christ. The complex has several cave-like buildings carved from solid granite.

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Echmiadzin, just outside of the capital, Yerevan, is the centre of religious life in Aremenia.