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Heart- breaking nominations

Posted by Yulia | in Comment, Opinion, Politics | on January 27th, 2007
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The news of the last two days in Kyrgyzstan -a certain Isabekov was nominated to become the next prime-minister of the country. Almost noone knows who Isabekov is – he is certainly a dark horse but definitely not a gray cardinal as someone suggested last week.
When Isabekov got nominated everyone suddenly realized how great […]

New ways of fighting corruption

Posted by Yulia | in Opinion | on January 22nd, 2007
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I don’t know how I could possibly live without our members of parliament, their refreshing ideas and initiatives. If they were a bit calmer, less inventive or,probably, more concerned about serious stuff, I would have been bored to death. But nothing bad is going to happen until they are in charge of entertaining the […]

Terra Politica rediscovered

Posted by Yulia | in Politics | on January 22nd, 2007
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This is a translation of the article that Inga posted on the Russian version of neweurasia.
It’s been all about the new constitution fuss lately. We became so preoccupied, that almost missed the fact, that the new Doctrine of Foreign Politics had been adopted in Kyrgyzstan. One can argue, that the event doesn’t really deserve […]

Do you feel like becoming a terrorist? Come and join us!

Posted by Yulia | in Youth, Culture | on January 17th, 2007
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This is a translation of the post by Inga, that originally appeared on the russian version of neweurasia.
“In order to make a bomb at home, you’ll need some acetone, sulphuric acid and hydrogen peroxide. Acetone and hydrogen peroxide you can be found in any drug store. Now you are all set for making your explosive […]

23 Kyrgyzstani citizens died in traffic accident in Saudi Arabia

Posted by Tolkun | in Tourism, travel, Regional news | on January 14th, 2007
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Yesterday, Kyrgyzstan was shocked by the news about the traffic accident in Saudi Arabia with 43 pilgrims who were returning in the bus from Mecca after performing Hajj, fifth pillar of Islam. Two buses crashed leaving 23 people dead, and others, most of whom were deadly injured, were taken to the hospital. Gulfnews states […]

Abortions as a main tool of family planning in Kyrgyzstan

Posted by Yulia | in Opinion, Youth | on January 13th, 2007
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This is a translation of the article that Inga posted on the Russian version of neweurasia-Kyrgyzstan

“Our population could have doubled by this time. But today abortions are becoming more fashionable, and women choose to kill their unborn kids. I think it’s because our life conditions are really tough”,- comments Zoya Yakovlevna- a gynecologist in a […]

“Citrus” state

Posted by Yulia | in Opinion | on January 9th, 2007
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If anyone still had doubts about the rank of Kyrgyzstan among leading banana republics, the most recent statistics from law enforcement bodies could support the fact that our country was not far from joining the community of “banana” countries throughout the world.
The data came from the report of 2006, which states that in […]

Rescued…

Posted by Yulia | in Tourism, travel | on January 8th, 2007
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Just a quick update in the fate of those Russian alpinists. Fortunately the rescue group has managed to get through to the blocked sportsmen, one of whom was injured. According to 24.kg the group was spotted at 2100 meter altitude and after the rescuing operation all of them got transported to Bishkek.

Stuck in Tian Shan

Posted by Yulia | in Tourism, travel | on January 7th, 2007
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If you fancy relaxing in Kyrgyz mountains consider the danger that is always out there during winter. It has just been announced that a group of students-alpinists from Russia (Novosibirsk) got blocked on the glacier near the canyon Ala Archa.
According to the Russian television NTV, 5 sportsmen-amateurs started mountaineering on December 29th. One […]

New Year –New Constitution

Posted by Yulia | in Revolution fever, Opinion, Politics | on January 1st, 2007
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Not that I was very surprised by the announcement that on the day before the end of 2006 yet another constitution was adopted by the Kyrgyz parliament. Common sense was something that Kyrgyz MP’s have not been employing for months. May be, for a change, they decided to do it and voted for the […]