The President of Kyrgyzstan Kurmanbek Bakiev held a meeting with Felix Kulov, leader of the opposition party “Ar-Namys” to discuss a critical situation in the energy sector of the Kyrgyz economy.
Felix Kulov spoke about the specific methods of attracting German investments for the building of small and medium hydroelectric power stations.
As is well known, […]
An international jazz festival “Jazz Bishkek Spring” finished yesterday in Bishkek. I present photographs from the second and third days of the festival. Top-down: the Kyrgyz group “Aura”, a singer Aidai, the Uzbek group “Artsah”, Saadet Turkez and Nils Vogram, the Tajic group “Mizrob”.
Moto-bike club “Iron Flight” opened the season on Saturday, near the rock-club “Zeppelin”. About 150 participants passed through Bishkek escorted by police.
An exhibition “Gold of Ancient Kyrgyzstan” has been opened today at the Historial State Museum. There is a large unique collection of ancient gold, found on the territory of modern Kyrgyzstan.
Kyrgyz parliament approved the project of the resolution about an establishment of a Memorial Day for victims of the tragic events of 1916 . It is supposed that the Memorial Day will be held yearly on the first Friday of August.
“This day is necessary to restore historical justice regarding the victims of the […]
The Kyrgyz-Russian relationships can be darkened by the recent April 20th incident in Kant, location of the Russian airbase.
A 24-year Russian citizen, Maksim Zotov, was seriously wounded by the Kyrgyz militia officials. Mr. Zotov serves as deputy chief of the Russian airbase financial department.
According to the facts, provided by Russian Embassy, the event […]
Communist party and Foundation of Sergiy Radonezhskiy and Manas have held a short protest action against the American airbase today. All images are clickable.
I’ve read an interesting article about tourism in Kyrgyzstan by Dina Tokbaeva from Bishkek Press Club and decided to translate this article. Here it is, with some small shortening.
Tourism companies of Kyrgyzstan told that there was an increase in the number of the foreign tourists to the country. According to the statistics from the […]
An official visit of the Kyrgyzstan President, Kurmanbek Bakiev to Kazakhstan started on 17th April.
An official meeting of the presidents was held in closed format at the residence of the president of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbaev “Ak Orda”.
There also was a session of the Supreme Kyrgyz-Kazakh Intergovernmental Council in expanded structure.
President Kurmanbek Bakiev expressed his […]
News agency AKIpress has reported that the new United States ambassador to Kyrgzstan will be Tatjana C. Gfoeller. The Kyrgyz government has already approved her appointment.
The current US ambassador is Mary Iovanovich. Reportedly, Ms. Iovanovich has been proposed to become the new US amassador to Armenia.
I found a small biography of the future […]
