Here we present an overview of the blogging activity and forum discussions in Russian in Kyrgyzstan for the last week.

Let us start with Neweurasia. Inga is posing a question that for the latest several months already became a rhetoric one- should Kyrgyzstan become a member of HIPIC. This abbreviation stands for the club of the poorest nations in the world. The advantage of being acknowledged by HIPIC for any country is a real chance to cancell their international debts. One visible disadvantage is the fact that once the country is accepted inot HIPIC, its image on international arena will be massively damaged. Members of the international community will think twice before dealing with HIPIC members and equality factor will never be the case in such negotiations any more. Inga brings up opinions of different people on this matter. Her main question is whether the act of economic charity of the richest nations in the world has got some hidden agenda and what are the consequences for Kyrgyzstan, which external debt has already reached a number of 1,944,245,000 $. Inga notes that in the present situation every citizen of Kyrgyzstan owes 400$ to external creditors.

On that matter in can also be interesting to check the personal blog of Edil Baysalov (well known human rights advocate) also having his strong position about the intention of kyrgyzstan to apply for HIPIC’s membership.

Last week I posted an article about a scandal triggered by the actions of the Ministry of Education of Kyrgyzstan. This ministry’s officials announced about their decision to revoke licenses for educational activity from a number of well known educational institutions on the ground. The motivation of the officials is that during recent years the extension of educational market has hardly reflected on the quality of education itself. The fear is that diplomas and degrees hardly provide graduate students with any guarantees of the quality of their knowledge and, as a result, don’t ensure any privileges at the internal and external job markets.
The fear of the students of the institutions being currently inspected is that officials are just trying hard to get rid of the competitors and in case of the law departments of more than 20 universities, which licenses are under scrutiny at the moment, to bring student willing to study law under one roof of the Academy of Law under the President of the Kyrgyz Republic.

Nastia in her piece about elections is investigating an issue of how electoral “process” is organized on the ground. Like the majority she is concerned about the case at the polling station Tuz Bel in the Kurshab electoral district that was accompanied with violent outbreak with the situation still remaining tense and unclear. Now the situation is characterized by analysts as Kurshab’s deadlock. Nastia is analyzing reasons that triggered the situation, she compares the way electoral procedure is routinely organized on the ground and comes up with the conclusion that corrupt electoral practices that are already taken for granted in Kyrgyzstan and keep being implemented in almost every electoral district carry the destructive potential for current and future elections.

Another analytical comment on that issue was featured by Gazeta.kg last week. Kuban Kalimbaev here theorizes about causes and consequences of the violent outbreak in Kurshab. In his opinion the situation is potentially explosive and can really add up to the feeling of uncertainty and endangerment that people in the south of Kyrgyzstan keep experiencing nowadays.