One advantage of late night sleeplessness is listening to the BBC World Service. This evening’s World Service edition of From Our Own Correspondent included a report about child miners in southern Kyrgyzstan:
No one knows the …

Further to Djigit’s post of Aziza Abdirasulova‘s letter following an attack on her in Naryn on August 10, RFE/RL published an article entitled “Women Activists Report Increasing Harassment” at the start of the month.
Referring to …

Speculation over the state of relations between the Kyrgyz and American governments is nothing new in the media, especially where the US Ganci airbase at Bishkek’s Manas International Airport is concerned.
What is unusual, however, is …

Just in case any readers have come directly to the Kyrgyzstan blog and missed it, Ben has posted an interview with Bektour Iskender, cofounder of Kloop, a web portal project based in Kyrgyzstan that …

Eurasianet reports that the Islamic Development Bank and the Kyrgyz government are launching a pilot project with a view to introducing Islamic financing in the Republic.
In recent years the issue of Sharia-compatible financing has attracted …

The blog In From the Cold has a post about Jill Metzger, who was the US Air Force Major who “disappeared” in Bishkek back in September of last year. The incident caused a fair amount …

…of protein in Kyrgyzstan.
Not quite what I expected to read, but it does seem logical seeing as armwrestling is a strength sport – and one with a greater following than one might first think, judging …

Last week, information was distributed on the KelKel Yahoo mailing list about the forthcoming continuation of the trial of several of human rights activists including Valentina Gritsenko from the Oblast Human Rights Organisation Spravedlivost (“Justice”).
In …

The IWPR has published an article entitled “New Social Policies Needed to Bridge Regional Conflicts” (Russian version here).
The report refers to information from the Foundation for Tolerance International’s Early Warning for Violence Prevention Programme. The …

A New Silk Road is the title of a new film created for show at the Art Institute of Chicago by artists Gulnara Kasmalieva and Muratbek Djumaliev. Unfortunately the exhibition is now finished, but it …