Director of TENGRI, the first French feature film made in Kyrgyzstan, talks about Tengirism, complex gender relationships, and the Mongolian coat of arm of her grandfather.
Q: Why TENGRI?
A: TENGRI, because this is the divinity of the nomads and close to what I feel concerning the religions in general. I’m not a religious person […]

Arkady Dubnov, commentator for Russian online news agency “Vremya novostei” interviewed Maxim Bakiev, the son of Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiev in Hyatt Regency Bishkek, the five-star hotel in Kyrgyzstan. The interview coincided with the birthday of his father. I thought that it would be interesting for some readers to read the interview. So I […]