Happily, it came to my attention that a new blog about Kyrgyzstan and Central Asia more generally, Nomadistan, came online last week.
The Nomads (as I’m christening them) include locals and foreigners, who are united by their aim of providing
insightful, sometimes humorous, sometimes serious commentary on the past, present, and future of this fascinating country […]

Way back in 2005, one of the “black PR” tricks that were launched on anti-Akaev groups such as Kel-Kel was having their websites cloned to discredit the organisations.
Seems like someone’s trying a similar trick on Edil Baisalov, as Mirsulzhan reports (RUS).  In addition to Edil’s real LiveJournal blog,  baisalov, there is now a very […]

Today I’ve read an article by Dina Tokbaeva published on the Bishkek Press Club’s official website about present and possible future Internet regulations in Kyrgyzstan. During the interview to BPC, Bolot Malabaev, a member of the Central Election Committee (CEC), shared his views on how to regulate Internet resources and what work  the working […]

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, […]

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 […]