Village teachers are the least qualified and there are no texts in classrooms. Very few young people receive post-secondary education. There are no school clubs, no travelling theater groups. But there always is a village bar. The level of extreme poverty is escalating.
Children mainly eat tea and bread.
Poverty is a rural phenomenon in Central Asia and the Caucasus. Small rural areas are alienated from the capital. They feel completely forgotten and betrayed. There are many urbanized towns built around a particular industry. They are doing so using indigenous methods of survival.