On July 23 Kyrgyz people have been called to poll station to decide who's going to be their President for next 5 years.
Against all expectations, Presidential Apparatus played a fair and transparent game.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Another Journalist/HR defender bites the dust in Chechnya
from BBC.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has expressed "outrage" at the murder of a prominent human rights activist, Natalia Estemirova.
Monday, July 13, 2009
Kyrgyz odisseys - On the road... again!?
I just came back from Chong-Kemin. On the way to the town our driver stubbornly refused to hear our suggestion on the itinerary, just to get lost in the middle of nowhere.
When we finally got to convince him that we were very close to leaving the country rather than reaching the Community Based Tourism we were looking for, he noticed we were running out of
fuel. We had to drive 25 minutes back to find a petrol pump.
It took us 5 hours to settle in our Yurta, that was 150 km far away from Bishkek.
When we finally got to convince him that we were very close to leaving the country rather than reaching the Community Based Tourism we were looking for, he noticed we were running out of
fuel. We had to drive 25 minutes back to find a petrol pump.
It took us 5 hours to settle in our Yurta, that was 150 km far away from Bishkek.
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Immigration - a scant view from the other side of the fence
Being a "rich Western European" - as Franziska is kindly used to remind me any time I show little surprise for some local cultural peculiarity - I'm used to think to immigration in a one way only.
To me - oddly proud member of the above mentioned category -, immigrants are poor indigent or needy people somehow entering Europe or USA to find a job or reach some relative.
In rich Western European's mind immigration is a smooth, neat process involving some lazy immigration office employees and a line of visa-endowed poor people waiting to file their requests.
The nerd or youngest will dare picture poor people sitting in front of a pc monitor in an internet point waiting for the right moment to send all documents via immigration office web portal, but this is already the farthest point our imagination is able to reach. Let's say that it comes very close to science-fiction...
To me - oddly proud member of the above mentioned category -, immigrants are poor indigent or needy people somehow entering Europe or USA to find a job or reach some relative.
In rich Western European's mind immigration is a smooth, neat process involving some lazy immigration office employees and a line of visa-endowed poor people waiting to file their requests.
The nerd or youngest will dare picture poor people sitting in front of a pc monitor in an internet point waiting for the right moment to send all documents via immigration office web portal, but this is already the farthest point our imagination is able to reach. Let's say that it comes very close to science-fiction...
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
It’s classified. Please help yourself.
One of our Spanish friends is a researcher from a European Research Center; his PhD work focuses on political instability in region under influence of former Soviet Union. After some months of travel and interviews in a couple of former USSR countries he finally reached Kyrgyzstan, where he was expected to conclude his pilgrimage.
Last week we met Alejandra, Lecturer of Spanish Language at Kyrgyz National University and common friend, who told us that his laptop and backup disk has been stolen couple of days before.
Last week we met Alejandra, Lecturer of Spanish Language at Kyrgyz National University and common friend, who told us that his laptop and backup disk has been stolen couple of days before.
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