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July 2nd, 2008

Kyrgyzstan: From Sorrow to Happiness

Elena Skochilo · 08:40

lingua → fr

Early in June a sorrowful groan was heard from the Kyrgyz blogosphere: the great Kyrgyz writer Chingiz Aitmatov died. Almost all Kyrgyz bloggers wrote about the death of a famous writer in their blogs. Erne_raj wrote [ru]: Chingiz Torekulovich is no more… But he left his scent in minds, hearts and history! Baisalov ... 2 comments · »»

June 15th, 2008

Kyrgyzstan: A Nation Is Grieving

Ben Paarmann · 14:38

lingua → zht · zhs

Ben Paarmann writes in honor of Kyrgyzstan author Chingiz Aitmatov who died on Tuesday this week, at the age of 79. "Thanks to Chingiz Aitmatov, Central Asian traditions, lifestyles, myths - but most importantly - a transcendental Central Asian "feeling" became part of Soviet culture, known and celebrated beyond the borders of the former empire." writes Paarmann. 0 comments · »»

June 11th, 2008

Kyrgyzstan: First Summer Events

Elena Skochilo · 05:47

lingua → es

There was a recent Miss Tourism Kyrgyzstan pageant, held on the eve of summer. Some bloggers have visited this contest and published photos of the event. The chosen Miss Tourism and other participants of the contest didn’t impress Kyrgyz bloggers. Blogger baisalov wrote [ru]: Miss Tourism looks like Filipino and other east-Asian ... 0 comments · »»

June 5th, 2008

Kyrgyzstan: Someone is Relaxing, Someone is Fighting

Elena Skochilo · 05:49

lingua → es

Undoubtedly, the meeting of the Kyrgyz bloggers became the most under discussion event of the Kyrgyz blogosphere in the second half of May. 27 bloggers met and even the bad weather didn’t prevent their nice communication. Mr_carlson wrote [ru]: “To be honest, I was afraid that the participants of the meeting ... 0 comments · »»

May 13th, 2008

Kyrgyzstan: A Slow Time

Elena Skochilo · 09:56

lingua → es

The May month traditionally comes to Kyrgyzstan with the holiday days. 1st May is the Labor Day, 5th May is the Constitution’s Day and on 9th May Kyrgyzstan celebrates Victory’s day. These day the life of Kyrgyzstan is rather quiet and slow. On 1st May, the Communist’s party held the short ... 0 comments · »»

April 30th, 2008

Kyrgyzstan: An Anxious April

Elena Skochilo · 07:08

lingua → mk · sq · es

A next to last week of April started from the unexpected fall of temperature. A lot of bloggers posted the photographs of the frozen greenery and the trees under snow. Yanagi presented the beautiful photos of the leaves under snow in her blog. red_ptero called [ru] this fall of temperature ... 0 comments · »»

April 21st, 2008

Kyrgyzstan: Time to Solve Problems

Elena Skochilo · 18:06

lingua → es

The first week of April started with the ambiguous opinions of Kyrgyz bloggers about the Marie Claire magazine article by American journalist Erin Finnerty with photography by Rena Effendi and the provocative headline “Kyrgyzstan: From Silk to Heroin” about the problems of women in Osh in southern Kyrgyzstan. For instance, beketova ... 0 comments · »»

March 19th, 2008

Kyrgyzstan: LBGT community video answer to Russian Orthodox Church´s homophobic comments.

Juliana Rincón Parra · 13:41

The videocast created by the LBGT community's Labrys organization in Kyrgyzstan in response to homophobic Russian Orthodox Church's statements and which was viewed more than 409 times within the first 15 hours of being uploaded has been dubbed and subtitled into English. 1 comment · »»

Links about Kyrgyzstan

July 2nd, 2008

Director of TENGRI, the first French feature film made in Kyrgyzstan, talks about Tengirism, complex gender relationships, in an interview of Jangyl Jusubjan.

June 23rd, 2008

Elena reports that US Deputy Assistant Secretary George Krol refuted rumours about the expansion of American airbase in Manas airport near the capital of Kyrgyzstan.

June 20th, 2008

Elena publishes a list of countries which don’t need to get the visa to visit Kyrgyzstan.

Elena reports that there will be 20 Kyrgyz sportsmen in Beijing at Olympic Games 2008.

June 16th, 2008

Elena publishes some photos from the funeral ceremony for the famous Kyrgyz writer Chingiz Aitmatov.

June 12th, 2008

Almaz reports that famous Kyrgyz writer and statesman Chingiz Aitmatov dies of pneumonia at a clinic in Nuremberg at 79.

June 11th, 2008

Elena grieves about the death of the famous Kyrgyz writer Chingiz Aitmatov.

June 10th, 2008

The Azamat Report posts pictures of random MPs in Kyrgyzstan as they were voting for their fellow colleagues. Regulations allow MPs to vote for their colleagues within the party in their absence. Often, only half of 90 propresidential party's MPs are present, but when voting results are announced, it turns out that almost all have voted, he says.