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 whole country and, sometimes, the whole world.

This time it was Marat Juraev, who made me weep with emotions. According to information agencies, he suggested to cut fingers and arms to corrupt officials ,once they are caught. In Juraev’s plan, in order to curb the corruption in the country it’s necessary “to cut a finger, if an official steals 100 000 soms, (apr. $2000) and it should be legitimate to cut an arm, if one million is stolen”.

Juraev came up with this idea, when Jogorku Kenesh was discussing the nomination of Felix Kulov. As a matter of fact, he even asked the ex-prime minister, if he would support this legislation draft. Kulov stroke back, emphasizing, that Kyrgyzstan was still a civilized state, and referred Juraev to the General Prosecutor, asking the latter to explain why it should not be the case.

There is no information what the reply was from the General Prosecutor. But I have a wild guess. One of the answers would be that the country as poor as Kyrgyzstan couldn’t afford enough executioners to perform punishment on each bribe taker. So the new plan of Marat Juraev could be genius but financially unrealistic. Too bad.