Campaigning for the forthcoming parliamentary elections is due to begin on November 26, and as 24.kg reports, as of November 22 only 22 of the 50 parties had registered their candidates. Among the candidates …

As regular readers may have noted, posts concerned with matters such as HIV/AIDs, bride kidnapping, polygamy and sexual minorities have often provoked strong views both in support of the authors’ opinions and against them.
For the …

Just a quick heads up that Sean Robert’s blog The Roberts Report, has posted an interview with well-known activist Edil Baisalov (who is, incidentally, also a blogger).
The interview covers several themes, including Edil’s thoughts on …

[inspic=41,,,0]Whilst political events in Kyrgyzstan have understandably being getting a fair amount of coverage recently, there is still life away from politics, especially where entertainment is concerned. Trawling around the 24.kg site the other day, …

Our partner, Transitions Online, has published an article by Genderstan blogger Anna Kirey on the situation of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender (LGBT) people in Kyrgyzstan entitled “Dangerous Attraction”.
Whilst there are glimmers of hope that …

Humour is, it seems, a constant presence in life even in the most dire situations. As neweurasia’s latest cross-blog survey shows, humour in Central Asia takes many forms and expressions, though, as might be expected, …

Editor’s note: This is a translation of Abdulgamid’s post, which is part of the neweurasia cross-blog survey about humour in Central Asia. In keeping with the subject, the article contains words and phrases that some …

Since the untimely murder of Ilkhom Theatre director Mark Weil on September 7, there has been considerable discussion of possible motives for his killing on the Internet. To recap, Weil was attacked by two men …

Our partner, Transitions Online, has posted an interview with Byubyusara Ryskulova by Anna Kirey, who runs Genderstan, a blog about gender in Central Asia.
The interview looks at Ryskulova’s work with the domestic violence crisis …

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