A young politician Edil Baisalov had to leave Kyrgyzstan not long before the parliament elections last year. Officials brought a criminal case against Baisalov when he had posted the photo of the voting-paper in his own blog. Nobody knew about his location since his leaving.

The local Kyrgyz newspaper “Litsa” (“Faces”) has had a chance to take an interview with Mr. Baisalov recently. He told that he was in Sweden now. His wife is taking her doctor’s degree there.

“I am ready to stand and account if I broke the law in any way. I don’t duck out, but an investigation and a court should be absolutely impartial and shouldn’t pursue any political accents”, Baisalov told.

According to Baisalov, “the parliament elections looked like a big and wicked performance”.

“I asserted and I will continue to insist that the Central Electoral Commission broke the Election Codex, when it didn’t print the voting papers on the special protected paper. I have been observing this process myself”, Baisalov said.

Mr. Baisalov also commented some events in Kyrgyzstan.

“I am against the privatization of the energy sector. An energy sector is the backbone of our economic and our idea of the Kyrgyz State system. The statement about our government being a bad owner is a total nonsense”, he considered.

Mr. Baisalov tried to foretell a future situation in Kyrgyzstan.

“A power which suggests to the people the new images and a new political language will win. Our opposition should stop intimidating the authority and should communicate to the people more. An opposition leaders shouldn’t gather a crowd of people to come to power, but must strive for the public opinion”, Baisalov told.

CA-News reported that on 15th May the President of Kyrgyzstan Kurmanbek Bakiev will arrive to Hudjand (the Sogdian region of the north Tajikistan) during his two-day visit.

The main topic of discussion between the president of Kyrgyzstan Kurmanbek Bakiev and the president of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmonov will be the solution of the boundary questions.

Bakiev will also discuss the questions of the development of the trade and economic cooperation and preparation for the SCO summit, which will be held in Dushanbe in August this year.

There are moot points about delimitation and demarcation of the Tajic-Kyrgyz boundary at the district between Sogdian region of Tajikistan and Batken region of Kyrgyzstan. There are always a lot of incidents and glaring contradictions between the frontiersmen at this district.

A last incident was about one and a half month ago. According to the words of the Kyrgyz frontier guards, on 26th march about 150 Tajic citizens provoked to the incident with the Kyrgyz frontier guards. They were trying to damage a dam, because there wasn’t any water for Tajic fields.

AFC told that Bangladesh started well after the barren first half when Jahin Hasan Ameli’s header gave them the lead in the 63rd minute but two late goals by Roman Kornilov and Ruslan Sydykov sealed the fate of the South Asians. Anyway, we won this game!!!

There has been a short requiem meeting at the Victory’s Square today. Our President Kurmanbek Bakiev congratulated our war veterans on Victory’s day and wished them strong health, peace sky and happiness. Here are some pictures.

AFC told, that Afghanistan kept their hopes of qualifying for the AFC Challenge Cup alive with a shocking 1-0 victory over hosts Kyrgyzstan at the Spartak Stadium today. I am very sad

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AFC told, that lowly Afghanistan held 10-man Bangladesh to a goalless draw in the AFC Challenge Cup Group C qualifier at the Spartak Stadium today. I was there and made some photos in spite of it raining cats and dogs! Enjoy.
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Communist’s party held a celebration of the Labour Day at the old square yesterday. Enjoy.

The President of Kyrgyzstan Kurmanbek Bakiev held a meeting with Felix Kulov, leader of the opposition party “Ar-Namys” to discuss a critical situation in the energy sector of the Kyrgyz economy.

Felix Kulov spoke about the specific methods of attracting German investments for the building of small and medium hydroelectric power stations.

As is well known, Felix Kulov sent an agenda to Kurmanbek Bakiev where he wrote of a vision detailing a way out of the current energy crisis.

“I have sensible suggestions about the development of small and medium energy [resources] of the republic”, told Felix Kulov during the meeting.

The President supported this suggestion and observed that such initiatives were deserving of state attention.

“I stressed our energy potential at the conference of Ak-Zhol party yesterday. We have great possibilities to develop small hydroelectric power stations. The hydroelectric power stations can be built locally, don’t need large sums [of money] and they are able to solve the questions with systematic supply of energy. Besides, the tariffs would be acceptable”, told Bakiev.

As a result of the meeting, Kurmanbek Bakiev entrusted the President Administration to make a plan for the realization of this suggestion and prepare a resolution for the projects.

An international jazz festival “Jazz Bishkek Spring” finished yesterday in Bishkek. I present photographs from the second and third days of the festival. Top-down: the Kyrgyz group “Aura”, a singer Aidai, the Uzbek group “Artsah”, Saadet Turkez and Nils Vogram, the Tajic group “Mizrob”.
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Moto-bike club “Iron Flight” opened the season on Saturday, near the rock-club “Zeppelin”. About 150 participants passed through Bishkek escorted by police.