The university offers language courses. A friend of mine, who is currently enrolled in them and lives nearby, invited me to go to Nashville on Friday with some students from her class. It’s not far, …

The Luli of Kyrgyzstan face persecution and fierce, racist rumor-mongering. neweurasia’s Elena trekked to the Luli village of Yangi, outside of Osh, to show the real life of this misunderstood and mistreated people.

Demonstrations in support of the Iranian opposition have spread across the globe this past Saturday. neweurasia’s Elena Skochilo took photos of one such demonstration in Gorky Park, which was broken up by the police.

23, July Kyrgyzstan’s presidential election passed. The Kyrgyz Central election committee (CEC) announced the elections accomplished. According to the preliminary results of the election, Kurmanbek Bakiev won 85,48%.
23, July all 2330 election districts were open …

Graffiti training for youth by the artist group Chervi.  Took place at the Evergreen youth camp in Issyk-Kul lake, 9 July in Ilbirs Rest House.

Today is “Silence Day” in Kyrgyzstan. It’s the day before elections and according to Kyrgyz law all campaign activity must cease. neweurasia’s Kyrgyzstan coordinator, Elena Skochilo, gives the lowdown on Kyrgyzstan’s fifth presidential election.

15, July, the President of Kyrgyzstan Kurmanbek Bakiev gave interview to the American New York Times.
During the interview, he told [ru] that Kyrgyzstan was going to set up the anti-terrorist centre at the south region …

This week the European Commission published [en] the new List of airlines banned within the EU. There are 17 Kyrgyz and 70 Kazakh airlines in this list. So, all Kyrgyz airlines are still banned …

Slon.ru writes [ru] that global financial crisis started in the February, 2007. That month Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) stopped the buying-out the subprime mortgages. A lot of American and European …