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 […]

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 […]

The blog In From the Cold has a post about Jill Metzger, who was the US Air Force Major who “disappeared” in Bishkek back in September of last year. The incident caused a fair amount of consternation, even more speculation about what exactly happened, and is still formally under investigation. Most recently, Major Metzger’s […]