Residents in Bishkek are lucky: They have electricity 24 hours. In all other places in the country, the power goes off for at least a few hours every day. In Osh, it goes dark at midnight, in many villages even earlier. Power supplies only resume in the morning hours. The […]
Central Asia and hydrocarbons, that is usually a story limited to Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, the oil and gas rich countries of the region. Fair enough, Uzbekistan also has some considerable gas deposits, yet it remains a net importer of energy.
Despite some old rusty derricks in the Ferghana Valley, oil and gas in Kyrgyzstan […]
Bektour Iskender talks to neweurasia about his website, Kloop.kg, being attacked by hackers.
Q: What happened to your website, Bektour?
A: On the 3rd of August 2007, Kloop was attacked by hackers (or by a single hacker, which is most likely) who deleted most of the blogs that are hosted on our virtual community platform. That […]
If you’re a frequent visitor to our homebase, you will have seen our intrusive campaign to get people fill in our survey. Now, if you haven’t seen this yet, please consider taking some minutes to tell us what you think about us and what we might do better in the future. For those making […]
RFE/RL carries a story on possible criminal proceedings against former president Askar Akaev. While the same source reported two days ago that, according to the Deputy Prosecutor-General, no such thing has been launched, Akaev might now get formally stripped of his immunity.
In June 2006, there were about 100 legal proceedings against Akaev, his family […]
Stratfor, in its own words “known by the largest and most successful global corporations as the “shadow CIA” (Barron’s)”, should double-check their Central Asia coverage a bit better…
Kazakhstan: Government Reshuffling
October 06, 2006 14 19 GMT
Kazakhstani President Kurmanbek Bakiyev reshuffled law enforcement executive posts Oct. 6. Osmonaly Guronov replaced Murat Sutalinov as acting Interior […]
During our recent outreach trip in Central Asia, we (Peter, James, Leila, Ben) stayed overnight in Sary Moghul, a village in southern Kyrgyzstan, on which I posted on recently. We used the morning of our departure for a stroll around the place and ended up at the village’s only school.
The headmaster of the […]
Recently, four of us neweurasians had the chance to travel parts of Central Asia in order to hold small seminars on blogging and its prospects in the region. The trip took also took us to southern Kyrgyzstan, where we broke our journey for one night in Sary Moghul (which is about 30 km west […]
While it can’t really be described as an exodus, more and more ethnic Russians want to leave Kyrgyzstan for Russia. The surge in the numbers of those seeking the necessary permits can be explained by the March events and the continuously shaky situation in Kyrgyzstan, both economically and politically. IRIN carried a story in […]
Marcus Bensmann in yesterday’s TAZ writes about thousands of Kyrgyz pilgrims that are stuck in Iran because of the poor state of the busses they’re travelling with, bird-flu, and a corrupt institution that is meant to support those willing to undertake one of the five pillars of Islam.
The Kyrgyz muftiate was allocated with 4,500 […]
