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Tag archive for ‘Kyrgyzstan’

• Oral History

  A great website Central Asia History, which consists of oral interviews with people from Kyrgyzstan, particularly focusing on older people and the early years of the Soviet Union, World War I, the settlement of nomadic people, World War II/the Great Patriotic War, and life now. It’s extremely interesting to read and I’d love to see […]

  5/19/09 • (Comments Off on Oral History)

• A Kyrgyz/Austrian/Russian blog

  Toktali is a blog written by a Kyrgyzstani who is currently living in Austria. It’s an interesting and nice looking blog with most posts in both German and English. It also has a post on one of the stories I neglected to post on here: Tourists Buy Nuclear Waste as a Souvenir! As Toktali writes: […]

  5/14/09 • (Comments Off on A Kyrgyz/Austrian/Russian blog)

• Manas Airbase

  The world news has covered this story pretty well. The President of Kyrgyzstan announced on a trip to Russia a few weeks ago that he would revoke the rights for the NATO airbase in Manas which has been serving coalition troops in Afghanistan. The US government responded with surprise as they had heard nothing before […]

  2/18/09 • (Comments Off on Manas Airbase)

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  Kazakhstan Wins Second Medal

  I must have misunderstood something when I wrote that Kazakh wrestler Tenizbayev still had a match to go to win the bronze Nurbykhyt Tenizbayev won Kazakhstan’s second medal in the Beijing Olympics, taking a bronze in Greco-Roman Wrestling, 60 kg category, sharing it with Ruslan Tiumenbaev of Kyrgyzstan. I miswrote that the two would face […]

  8/12/08 • (Comments Off on Kazakhstan Wins Second Medal)

• Olympics Update: Boxing, Wrestling and Weightlifting

  Kazakhstan’s boxers continue to lead the hope for a medal. While in other events, Kazakhstan’s athletes have already finished empty-handed, the boxers are still in the ring and pounding away. As I reported before, Bakhityar Aratayev is still in the final 16 and will have his next match on Aug 16 against Matvey Korobov, the […]

  8/12/08 • (2)

• Neo-Nazis in Russia Getting More Violent

  Patrick Frost at Central Asia Foreign Policy Blog recently posted a disturbing article about violence against minorities in Russia. Of course, most of the non-Slavic residents are from Central Asia and the Caucacus. Around 50 people were killed in clear hate crimes in the first three months of 2008, according to human rights groups. That’s […]

  5/14/08 • (Comments Off on Neo-Nazis in Russia Getting More Violent)

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  Santa Claus To Invest in Kyrgyzstan

  Kazakhstan aims to position itself as a bridge between East and West, seeing it’s geographic position as a unique political and economic advantage. However the nation may have to admit that its neighbor to the south, while poorer is much more significantly placed to influence the world economy and geopolitics. According to SWECO, a Swedish […]

  12/09/07 • (Comments Off on Santa Claus To Invest in Kyrgyzstan)

• Problems in the Financial Sector

  As the banking sector in Kazakhstan is viewed internationally as unstable, the government is taking controversial measures to try to stabilize the financial sector, including buying out shares of Kazakhstan companies and cutting the budget to put 4 billion tenge aside as a reserve fund to bail out banks. Last week it was reported that […]

  10/18/07 • (Comments Off on Problems in the Financial Sector)

• Public Corruption Percieved as Worse

  The Corruption Perceptions Index for 2007 from Transparency International was released on the 27th of September. A table of the results can be found here. Kazakhstan, with a score of 2.1 out of 10, is tied with Azerbaijan, the Republic of Congo, Kyrgyzstan, Liberia, Tajikistan, Zimbabwe and 5 other countries as 150th for corruption in […]

  10/06/07 • (Comments Off on Public Corruption Percieved as Worse)

• The election trail gets a bit bloody

  Unfortunate Incidents and Warnings of Violence After the Kyrgyz revolution, the government of Kazakhstan (among other nations) took a long hard look at their own situation and potential for such an uprising. A number of statements were made to the effect that Kazakhstan was too politically and socially stable, that the level of living was […]

  11/25/05 • (Comments Off on The election trail gets a bit bloody)

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