A post for those who happened to be somewhere in the former Soviet Union in December 2006 - and for those who are easily moved by the Ghost of Pop Hits Past…
If there is one name more often on Kyrgyz lips than the names of former and current presidents Akayev and Bakiyev, it has to […]
One advantage of late night sleeplessness is listening to the BBC World Service. This evening’s World Service edition of From Our Own Correspondent included a report about child miners in southern Kyrgyzstan:
No one knows the exact number of children working in Kyrgyzstan’s coal mines.
Locals say the government refuses to acknowledge the problem. Officially these […]
(I’m a new author on this site, and although it’s been a while since New Year’s, I hope you’ll forgive me for posting an earlier story about what that particular day was like when 2007 came to Batken…)
In a far-off corner of Kyrgyzstan, the Mayor is facing a strange dilemma. The guest list is looking […]
Ask a Kyrgyz cab driver what the most pressing issue in his country might be, and he won’t bring up constitutional amendments. Nor will he start on the level of religious freedoms, or the lack of objective journalism. Easy to overlook, yet so depressingly obvious, the answer is always one and the same - […]
Adults are too busy with everyday life to spend more attention to the education of their children. Some of parents do care, they spend good amount of money for private schools and teachers. The government employees are lack of motivation to make changes in school education. With small salaries, bureaucratic way of doing business, […]
This is just a small announcement for those wishing to share their pictures with the Neweurasia audience. I have created a new category “Click on pic” under which you can post a photo. Our new author Rose has presented her first photo on “Solemar”. Hoping to see more authors with more pics!
This is the picture of one of the most expensive spa resorts in Issyk-Kul. It is a new place where posh tourists stay during the summer. It is one of the newly built resorts with a swimming pool and all other services the modern resorts can offer nowadays.
Further to Djigit’s post of Aziza Abdirasulova’s letter following an attack on her in Naryn on August 10, RFE/RL published an article entitled “Women Activists Report Increasing Harassment” at the start of the month.
Referring to prominent and widely-respected activists including Tolekan Ismailova, Valentina Gritsenko and Aziza Abdirasulova, the article reports that there is growing […]
Midnight. Coming back from the party, the celebration of my sister’s birthday. Needed to buy some water. Asked the taxi driver to stop on the crossing of Sovietskaya and Toktogula street. Oh, what I saw was just absolutely shocking and outrageous! I never witnessed it from such a close distance. A bunch of […]
Another government’s action or rule was recently set up which led to dissatisfaction among people in Bishkek city due to the upcoming SCO summit. Yesterday along with my friend I went to the nearest “Narodny”, a chain of supermarkets. Well, cold beer helps to cope with a hot weather. Surprisingly, we did not find […]
