Neweurasia has launched a new opinion and editorial page, and things have been kicked off with a piece on Kyrgyzstan entitled “Causes and Consequences, or Looking Beyond Tomorrow in Kyrgyzstan”. There’s been some interesting comments …

Osh celebrated Constitution Day on Friday (May 5) in style, with an additional party atmosphere being created by OshTV, which celebrated its 15th birthday on the same day. As well as the usual holiday activities …

Unsurprisingly, the print and electronic media has devoted many column inches to coverage of the protest held on April 29 in Bishkek. Much has been made of the supposed mass and unified nature of the …

After President Bakiev’s much-publicised official visit to Moscow, it did not take long for Bishkek’s billboards to be pressed into service to advertise just how good Russo-Kyrgyz relations apparently are, as the below photo taken …

As March 24 – and with it the first anniversary of the overthrow of the Akaev regime – approaches, the international spotlight is returning to Kyrgyzstan to see what people are thinking about the changes …

As Scott Radnitz noted in his December 2005 article published in Central Asian Survey, “Before the was the Tulip Revolution, there was Aksy.”
Today marks the fourth anniversary of the Aksy tragedy that resulted in the …

Looks like plans to designate March 24 a public holiday as Day of the Peoples’ Revolution may have been a little premature. As Gateza.kg reports today, yesterday the Kyrgyz Parliament voted against including the reading …

Understandably, and inevitably, as March 24 approaches revolution fever is once again running high, both in Kyrgyzstan, and internationally, as the recent crop of conferences and seminars such as this one at LSE on February …

Looks like the feud between Prime Minister Feliks Kulov and alledged criminal authority Ryspek Akmatbaev, which became very public following the death of Tynchybek Akmatbaev in October and then flared up again after Ryspek was …

This story’s been rumbling around in Bishkek for a while now and there’s been some interesting debate in Russian language media, so thought a quick look would be in order. Even so, it is worth …