One more outrageous attempt to curb mass media in supposedly democratic Kyrgyzstan was made last night. This time an assault was aimed at the facilities of the TV station Pyramid in Bishkek. According to RFERL newsagency 3 people wearing masks stormed Pyramid’s transmitting tower, where technical stuff was installing new equipment that was earlier […]
On September 26 in the evening in the Manas airport two planes, an American and a Kyrgyz one collided on the ground. The collision, luckily, hasn’t left any dead or injured, but became yet another troubling sign of the problematic operational coexistence of the civilian and military aviation in the Kyrgyz airport Manas. […]
This is a translation of the post that Inga wrote on our Russian version. In the article she writes on how lie detectors will be used in preventing corruption in Kyrgyz government.
Kyrgyz government decided to eradicate corruption using lie detectors. International donors are supposed to provide money for this experiment. The cost of every […]
One of the most popular issues being discussed recently among Kyrgyz bloggers and those writing about Kyrgyzstan is the scandal with the deputy of parliament Omurbek Tekebaev, who was detained in Warsaw with 500 grams of cocaine in his luggage. With lots of speculations around this incident, Mirsulzhan on the Russian language site of […]
Recently, four of us neweurasians had the chance to travel parts of Central Asia in order to hold small seminars on blogging and its prospects in the region. The trip took also took us to southern Kyrgyzstan, where we broke our journey for one night in Sary Moghul (which is about 30 km west […]
This is a translation of the article that Mirsulzhan posted on the Russian version of NewEurasia
.Activists of the Kyrgyz movement “Supporting reforms” on September 12th organized a rally to support its leader Omurbek Tekebaev, who recently was arrested in Warsaw for drugs possession, but than was released.The story starts on September 7th ,when in the […]
This is a translation of the article about illegal miners that Inga posted on the Russian version of NewEurasia.
Could you ever imagine that thousands of people with their spades can work in radioactive hole where the radiation level skyrockets as high as 1500-2000? This is not a narration from a horror movie. This is […]
Yesterday the members of the committee responsible for devising 3 variants of the new Constitution of Kyrgyzstan met with civil society representatives and journalists. The group finally reported on the results of the work, emphasizing that during public consultations there were a number of disagreements about suggestions and interpretations.
As it turned out, during the […]
This is a translation of the article that Alieva posted on Russian version of NewEurasia.
It is a long and rather difficult drive from Bishkek to Osh. At some point you start associating yourself with the character from Chingiz Aytmatov’s novel named “My poplar tree in a red scarf”. It narrates on how truck drivers […]
Before the independence anniversary, former Kyrgyz president Askar Akaev ousted after the revolution last year, announced that he wanted to come back to Kyrgyzstan. He fled the country more than a year ago, but now wrote a touching letter to his fellow citizens. He congratulated everyone and promised to show up in the country […]
