Just in case any readers have come directly to the Kyrgyzstan blog and missed it, Ben has posted an interview with Bektour Iskender, cofounder of Kloop, a web portal project based in Kyrgyzstan that has a news section and a blog platform. Read the full interview and find out about Iskender’s plans to expand Kloop’s coverage both geographically and linguistically.

Also worth checking out for Russian-speakers/readers is Bektour’s personal blog, Nichego osobennogo (Nothing in particular), which recently included a post on a double decker bus in Bishkek, complete with photos. Unfortunately, as he points out, this isn’t the start of a new form of transport in Bishkek. Rather, it’s part of an advertising campaign for a tobacco company.

All the same, I’m still curious as to how exactly one gets a double decker bus to Bishkek from anywhere, let alone the UK.