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• Kazakhstani Shot By Police

  This is a terrible story and it’s doing bad things for the image of the US in Kazakhstan. A 26 year old man, Kiril Denyakin, who was working in Portsmouth, VA was shot by police on the 23rd of April. The local paper has the most complete account I’ve seen so far. Apparently, Denyakin was […]

  4/29/11 • (6)

• High Times in North Kazakhstan

  Apparently police in North Kazakhstan oblast seized seven bags of marijuana this weekend from a car on the Karaganda-Omsk road and put them in a warehouse in Petropavlosk. However when it came time to incinerate them, they discovered that 5 bags totaling 100kgs had been replaced by tobacco and bricks! The matter is under investigation, […]

  4/19/11 • (Comments Off on High Times in North Kazakhstan)

• 20-Year Old Sex Slave Freed

  an awful story [RU] of a student studying to be a teacher being kidnapped and forced into prostitution. I’m a bit unclear as they say in the first paragraph that the girl was kidnapped at home and shoved into a car, but then describe a girl kidnapped in the basement of a hotel. In any […]

  4/11/11 • (Comments Off on 20-Year Old Sex Slave Freed)

• My Encounter With the Police in Kyrgyzstan

  Was going to reply to this comment by Lucky on Video from Bishkek, showing police running away from protesters but I thought this little anecdote might be interesting. A few summers ago I was in Bishkek and a friend and I were walking around behind the White House where there is a nice park with […]

  4/09/10 • (Comments Off on My Encounter With the Police in Kyrgyzstan)

• Video From Bishkek

  Amazing video. Go to the Youtube site to check out others by the same author. Although not showing any bloodshed, it’s quite shocking to see how well armed some of the protesters are. Where do people get automatic rifles? You can also see, in this encounter, on the main street of Bishkek a couple of […]

  4/07/10 • (1)

• Who Will Watch the Watchmen?

  I have heard from a number of my friends who work in the government-understandably they preferred to remain anonymous–that the government is doing something about government cars being used for personal purposes. However, the program they have put into place doesn’t seem to be optimal. To the casual observer, this does seem like a really […]

  11/07/09 • (Comments Off on Who Will Watch the Watchmen?)