Baltika Ltd, a Russian brewing company, sold about 10 million liters of beer during six months this year, which is 12% higher than the last year sales for the same period, informs Akipress. The beer market is small, but still attractive to foreign suppliers. Currently, there are beer importers from Russian, Kazakhstan, China, and […]
In spite of the fact that the prices have been tremendously increasing for almost all vital food products, The President Kurmanbek Bakiev seems to be very optimistic and keeps surprising people with his unrealistic statements regarding the current and future situation in Kyrgyzstan. On the 19th of September, the President K. Bakiev gave […]
The Issyk-Kul lake is known not only as a beautiful recreation resort with nice sandy beaches, warmish, a little bit salty, blue pure water. Also, there are quite a few natural landscapes in that region which you can enjoy, and some pictures below for your observation. In this post for “Click on Pic” theme, […]
Editor’s note: Thispost is part of neweurasia’s cross-blog survey about humour in Central Asia.
Since there are only few original Kyrgyzstan Internet sources devoted to humor, jokes, anecdotes, and etc, foreign humor websites, mostly Russian, are very popular. There are some entertainment websites, but they contain not only some jokes and funny stories, […]
Dear all
I was very honored when I was asked as an author for neweurasia. Maybe it seems strange to write for newearasia whilst not living there at all (I am from Europe). But this part of the world and especially Kyrgyzstan is very attractive to me.
I have been in Bishkek and Osh for two […]
The number of video files showing the violence among teenagers in schools is growing. These video clips are recorded on mobile phones in schools and shared among pupils, and some can be watched on www.video.kg website, a YouTube analog in Kyrgyzstan. The school violence among teenagers, including boys and girls, has become a serious […]
Kyrgyz citizens are elite driven and politically manipulated citizens. To see this we don’t look back too far; just take the recent protests, which became the tradition of Kyrgyz people. Too often Kyrgyz people go to protests and meetings. They don’t demand anything themselves, but rather for some several elites.
First of all, let me explain […]
The official Kyrgyzstan Football Federation website announced that the Kyrgyzstan national football team had no sufficient financial recourses and could not afford going overseas to play in qualifying games for the World Cup 2010. The financial help is wanted the bank account number is published, where money can be transferred. These news were […]
Our partner, Transitions Online, has posted an interview with Byubyusara Ryskulova by Anna Kirey, who runs Genderstan, a blog about gender in Central Asia.
The interview looks at Ryskulova’s work with the domestic violence crisis centre Sezim, which was founded in April 1998 and is Bishkek’s only such centre. In the last nine years […]
Ireland was one of the poorest countries in Western Europe, a small country with scarce natural resources and with a lot of economic problems. The government regulation of economy was very tight, one seventh of its population left the country. It seems like it was experiencing the same problems which now Kyrgyzstan is facing. […]
