On 4th June the President of Kyrgyzstan Kurmanbek Bakiev signed a decree about the assignment of his brother Janybek Bakiev as a chief of the state guard service.
As a matter of fact a low-key post of the main body-guard is one of the key posts in the security agencies system. This post will […]

A young politician Edil Baisalov had to leave Kyrgyzstan not long before the parliament elections last year. Officials brought a criminal case against Baisalov when he had posted the photo of the voting-paper in his own blog. Nobody knew about his location since his leaving.
The local Kyrgyz newspaper “Litsa” (“Faces”) has had a chance […]

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 […]

Below is a translation of Mirsulzhan’s post from the Russian language blog
The 14th annual Index of Economic Freedom prepared by the Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal was publicized on the 14th January. 162 countries took part and the economic freedom of each country was measured by 10 indicators such as free trade, […]

Speculation over the state of relations between the Kyrgyz and American governments is nothing new in the media, especially where the US Ganci airbase at Bishkek’s Manas International Airport is concerned.
What is unusual, however, is for one of the more well-known sources of news and analysis, in this case The Jamestown Foundation, to get […]

IFEX has announced that news media in Kyrgyzstan enjoy more freedoms comparing to their colleagues in other Central Asian countries.
The question is, though, whether we have many reasons to rejoice this fact. Every time the data on the status of mass media celebrating freedom of speech of certain countries is published I get […]

This is a translation of the analysis that Inga posted on Russian neweurasia. She explains in details who benefited from adopting new Kyrgyz Constitution.
New Constitution is adopted in Kyrgyzstan. This fact is cheered by everyone, including the people, the president and the parliament. Crowds of former protesters greeted new constitution with fireworks, the White House […]

Here we provide you with an update on the blogging activity in the blogsphere of Kyrgyzstan during the past week.
One of the widely discussed issues in Kyrgyzstan was the decision of the Central Election Committee (CEC) to cancel the parliamentary mandate of 2 MPs: Murat Malabaev and Aydar Akaev. In the case of […]

What follows here is a compilation of the most interesting posts that appeared during the past week in the Kyrgyz blogsphere.
Political conflict of Russia and Georgia received some press in Kyrgyz blogs. Naryn Ayip in his livejournal poses the question “Who can spy in Russia and outside of it?”. He writes :
“Tbilisi […]

One of the most prominent political events of the past week in Kyrgyzstan is the address of president Bakiev to the people of the country. Lots of publications featured an analysis of what Kyrgyz president said about his vision of the present and the future of Kyrgyzstan. As it regularly happens, different writers carefully […]