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Rising Voices, the outreach arm of Global Voices, in collaboration with the Open Society Institute Public Health Program’s Health Media Initiative, is now accepting project proposals for the third round of microgrant funding of up to $5,000 for new media outreach projects focused especially on public health issues involving marginalized populations. Ideal applicants are dynamic NGOs or individuals who: (more…)
Elena writes about future reductions in power outages, beginning in the middle of June (RUS).
Elena tells readers about the meeting of President Bakiev and opposition party “Ar-Namys” leader Felix Kulov (ENG).
The Andijon events of May 2005, when several hundred of demonstrating civilians were reportedly shot dead by the Uzbek government troops, made the whole world tremble. The results did take long to come. The United States made several statements on severe human rights violations in Uzbekistan, for which later were asked to call back the Karshi-Khanabad airbase, and EU has put several sanctions, including visa bans on high ranking Uzbek officials. However, today, after three years have passed, both US and EU seem to have forgotten Andijon. (more…)
Mirsulzhan uploads photos of the Eternal Flame in Bishkek (KYR).
Mirsulzhan quotes an article from the newspaper Asman, in which a Kyrgyz ‘aksakal’ estimates the next president’s current age (KYR).
Plitical intra-elite battles and anti-corruption crusades both remain hot topics on the agenda of Kazakhstani blogosphere, but speculations over the looming global food crisis and its implications for Central Asia made the bloggers cover this issue in their discussions.
Ehot wonders, what will Kazakhstan be looking like if the food deficit strikes the region harshly and marks out that in such critical period
“elites - including ardent oppositionists - will leave the country with everything what can be taken out, and leave the nation to the mercy of fate”.
According to various assessments of experts, aggravation of the food problematique can lead to doubling of prices for foodstuff in the next five years. Epolet writes that in such conditions it would be natural if the national business starts eyeing the ways of making money on food (more…)
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 and told [ru]:
I was scared when I had seen this tree from the kitchen window.
red_ptero called [ru] this fall of temperature “grimaces of the global warming”.
A fall of temperature has happened not only to nature. A Russian military was heavy injured because of 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.
Abdulgamid reports on Turkmen government’s promises that denomination of the national currency will be “soft” (RUS).
Elena posted some pictures from the last soccer game between Bangladesh and Kyrgyzstan during the AFC Challenge Cup Group C qualifier (ENG)
Abdulgamid writes about four times rise in prices for air tickets in Turkmenistan (RUS).
maciula reports on president Berdymukhammedov’s efforts to undo his predecessor’s personality cult (ENG).
Elena congratulates all on the Victory Day and presents some pictures from the celebration of the Victory Day in Kyrgyzstan (ENG, RUS)
Were the Kyrgyz people always nomadic and had they ever beautiful towns? Yes they had, and it is proved in a podcast related to historical place of Burana, made by Mirsulzhan (KYR).
Restec posts photos of Medeo, the mountaneous resort near Almaty, which is currently undergoing radical transformation into a world class touristic attraction (ENG, RUS).
Elena presents some pictures from the soccer game between Afghanistan and Kyrgyzstan during the AFC Challenge Cup Group C qualifier and grieves for Kyrgyzstan’s loss (ENG).
Gulsali announces about the contest “The Future Kyrgyz Parliament” held for high school and undergraduate students (KYR).
Mirsulzhan uploads photos of Hydropower stations of Kyrgyzstan (KYR).
Gulsali publishes a list of the Kyrgyz famous people who officially got married after coming to the Power (KYR).
Melisbek links to Aziza Abdirasulova’s interview and gives an update on the humiliation of human rights in an energy sector (KYR).
Abdulgamid reports that in Ashgabat was organized a meeting of the World War II veterans and widows of soldiers who died in the war (RUS).
Adam analyzes some developments in the Kazakhstani banking sector, including negative references from the rating agency, released data on banks’ losses in 2007 and proposed introduction of criminal responsibility for the bankers’ actions that led to bankruptcy (ENG).
Adam posts some figures showing the rise of costs that are spent for maintenance of state bodies in Kazakhstan over the past years amidst ongoing campiagns on reduction of these expenditures (RUS).
Firuz thinks that the increase in price for electricity will have even more negative influences than it is expected by the elecity monopolist Barki Tojik (TAJ).
Ravshan reports that president Rahmon suggested to put a ban on regular inspections of small and medium enterprises by various governmetal agencies but experts claim that it will not work (RUS).
Vadim reports that electricity in Tajikistan becomes more expensive for the empoverished population (ENG).
maciula writes about one of president Berdymukhammedov’s closest associates Turkmen Minister of Foreign Affairs Rashid Meredov (ENG).
Adam reports that the Kazakh government will seek investors to build or maintain 1,000 kilometers of roads at a projected cost of $4.5 billion in exchange for operating concessions (ENG, RUS).
Elena presents photographs from the soccer game between Afghanistan and Bangladesh during the AFC Challenge Cup Group C qualifier (ENG).
The minimum cost of education at Kyrgyzstan’s Universities will be 15000 soms, i.e. 420 U.S. dollars, before there weren’t any such restrictions, says Gulsali.
Nurgeldy writes that a monument to Charlie Chaplin has appeared in Kostanai last week, which is a pretty ironic sign, as the only movie theatre in the city was demolished in 2007 (RUS, ENG)
Askhat writes that weak intelligentsia in Kazakhstan fails to give new impetus to Kazakh language (KAZ)
Askhat writes that the Uzbek authorities made a big mistake by closing the Kazakh culture centre in Tashkent (KAZ)
Abdulgamid reports on the Turkmen government’s decision to relocate the Neutrality Arch to the southern area of Ashgabat (RUS).
Arman writes about strange news piece released lately about the suggestions of the new mayor of Almaty. Among them was a proposition on how to resolve the problem of frozen construction sites — but no further details were covered (ENG, RUS).
Small and medium businesses in Kyrgyzstan amounted to 45% of GDP, Melisbek reports (KYR).
Mirsulzhan tells of an incident in the Kyrgyz army, where a soldier was killed, but officials say about the ”suicide”.
Askhat shares photos from his Kostanay trip, where Soviet era monuments are still there, in the center of city (KAZ).