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Shairbek Zhusuev, leader of political party ErK (Erkin Kyrgyzstan - transl. Free Kyrgyzstan), shocked many Kyrgyzstanis stating that the capital of Kyrgyzstan Bishkek city has been satanized for many years, as it has a big sign symbolizing demonolatry. Zhusuev says that he found out about it while surfing Google Earths and learning Bishkek from high [...]
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ahad Abdurahmon reflects on the issue why democracy is failing in Kyrgyzstan, a country which was so promising?
Gates of Vienna (Free subscription) | yesterday
In a video on last night’s post you saw Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff confronting the OSCE “Human Dimension” roundtable on the subject of religiously-inspired violence. On behalf of Pax Europa , Elisabeth is in the process of writing a report about her efforts — and those of her colleagues from Akademikerbund and Mission Europa — at the OSCE meeting last week. Her insistence...
John Rentoul (Free subscription) | yesterday
I am grateful to Simon Mann and Mark Thatcher for one thing. They have made it marginally easier to remember the capitals of smaller African countries, a subset of general knowledge of which I am fond but in which I am deficient. There is a better chance now that Malabo will stick in my mind, not least because I know that it is on the island of Bioko, formerly Fernando Po, which is part of the territory...
Called to the bar (Free subscription) | yesterday
Out rough shooting on Dartmoor yesterday with a bunch of guys and when the talk turns to beer it’s all about cask beer — I like Tribute says one chap, almost licking his lips, another has a Proper Job pump-clip on the grill of his 4x4, one fella, about to become a father, bemoans the fact he can’t get Otter Ale in his local near Oakhampton, while another says which Sharps beer he...
Webstan - Internet in Central Asia (Free subscription) | yesterday
In Google Trends, tool which compares search volume for given queries, you can see that Facebook has now caught Odnoklassniki by Google search queries numbers in Kazakhstan. As you can see on the graph Odnoklassniki queries emerged in the country in November 2007 since then it boomed until middle 2008. Facebook raised in October 2008 and started to catch up with Russian social network in September...
tomgpalmer.com (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Guominliyi.org DoiMoi.org (I hope you like the small video on DoiMoi.org of my friend Sascha Tamm, which I made with my flip camera in the Steinbräu brewery and pub in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.)
tourismvision (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Will Kazakhstan avoid the mass tourism trap with a heady mix of new airports, gambling and ecotourism? The enormous and oil-rich Central Asian Republic of Kazakhstan isn’t sparing a penny in its drive to become THE major regional tourism hub. With Russia, China and India all just 4 hours away by jet, big, rich and eager markets lie very close to this massive, sparsely-populated, land-locked state....
kyrgyzstan.neweurasia.net (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Today, Shairbek Zhusuev, leader of political party ErK (Erkin Kyrgyzstan - transl. Free Kyrgyzstan), shocked many kyrgyzstanis stating that the capital of Kyrgyzstan Bishkek city has been satanized for many years, as it has a big ...
Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The Vecherny Bishkek newspaper has reported that a 14- year-old boy has spent the last eight years living alone in a ramshackle sheep shed in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan. According to the paper, the boy’s parents left the former Soviet state for Russia in early 2000, leaving their young son with his ill grandmother. For [...]
i On Global Trends (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
By Bruce Pannier -RFE/RLCopyright (c) 2009. RFE/RL, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave., N.W. Washington DC 20036.With First Son's New Role, Kyrgyz Government Remains A Family AffairWhen Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiev put the finishing touches on his restructured government last week, he entrusted the country's future economic course to
Institute for War & Peace Reporting (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
President accused of heading for dynastic rule after appointing son to top job. By Yevgenia Kim in Bishkek (RCA No. 594, 06-Nov-09)
Institute for War & Peace Reporting (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Residents fear being made homeless as Bishkek authorities move to demolish shantytown. By Asyl Osmonalieva in Bishkek (RCA No. 594, 06-Nov-09)
Daily Khabor @ Khabor.Com (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
UAE tops the list of nations who own highest number of phones per head. Every UAE resident has nearly 3 cell phones. Turkey is midway at 62 where is Pakistan lags behind Iraq at 121. Whereas shining India comes 159th, 2nd last from bottom, only nation below India is micronesia. Per capita cell phone ownership by country Rank Country Mobiles per 1000 people ===============================================...
France 24 (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The editor of a newspaper that frequently criticised the secret police in ex-Soviet Kyrgyzstan has died after a savage attack in which he was stabbed more than a dozen times, police said Thursday. The body of Seyitbek Murataliyev, editor of the independent weekly Zhylan, was found by police early Wednesday morning in a communal area of his apartment building in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek.
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