Elena Skochilo
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July 2nd, 2008
Kyrgyzstan: From Sorrow to Happiness
· 08:40 · Central Asia & CaucasusEarly 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 told [ru]:
2 comments · »»Aitmatov was more than just writer for Kyrgyz nation and Kyrgyzstan. He was the pride and the glory of the Kyrgyz people. He was the face of the nation. We haven’t enough words to describe the place which he took in the heart of every Kyrgyz. Aitmatov was a real artist. He didn’t copy off his heroes and didn’t put real life in his work: he was creating his characters. World knew about Kyrgyz nature, destiny and soul by way of Aitmatov. All Kyrgyz’s will be observed and appreciated through the prism of the Aitmatov’s mythology. We are living and we are condemned to live in the universe of Aitmatov, because the images of Aitmatov, heroes, persons, tragedies became our own life.
June 11th, 2008
Kyrgyzstan: First Summer Events
· 05:47 · Central Asia & CaucasusThere 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 beauties. I think, first vice-miss Tourism has more or less averaged and typical face of Kyrgyzstan.
simpu joked [ru]
Last two girls are more or less attractive. I am clever man and I understand that their appeal is because of make-up.
One more “fashion event”. Russian newspaper “Komsomolskaja Pravda” published an article “Kyrgyzstan – Fatherland of Dior” about the incomes from clothing manufacturing in Kyrgyzstan.
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June 5th, 2008
Kyrgyzstan: Someone is Relaxing, Someone is Fighting
· 05:49 · Central Asia & CaucasusUndoubtedly, 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]:
0 comments · »»“To be honest, I was afraid that the participants of the meeting wouldn’t take an interest into each other. People are different ages, tastes and interests. The only mutual thing we have are blogs. But I has been wrong, because the atmosphere of the meeting was just marvelous”.
May 13th, 2008
Kyrgyzstan: A Slow Time
· 09:56 · Central Asia & CaucasusThe 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 meeting at the Old Square in Bishkek. There were a lot of people who held the portraits of Lenin and the old soviet flags. It was really strange demonstration, because the communists also hung the scarecrow of the president of USA George Bush during the meeting.
Lj-user Lvenks even called [ru] this demonstration as “a parade of the insane”.
0 comments · »»April 30th, 2008
Kyrgyzstan: An Anxious April
· 07:08 · Central Asia & CaucasusA 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 “grimaces of the global warming”.
A fall of temperature has happened not only to nature, but to the Russian-Kyrgyz relations too. A Russian soldier was heavy injured in an incident between Russian militaries from the Russian airbase in Kant city and the Kyrgyz police. Many people consider this incident as a threat for the Kyrgyz-Russian relationships.
0 comments · »»April 21st, 2008
Kyrgyzstan: Time to Solve Problems
· 18:06 · Central Asia & CaucasusThe 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 wrote [ru]:
0 comments · »»“It’s rubbish. To write something just to shock more. Like that scandal story about Borat, when Kazakhstan fell prey to a casual selection. Film doesn’t sound Kazakhstan anyway!”
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