The most efficient mass media tool in southern Kyrgyzstan these days is word of mouth, rumors and hearsay to be specific. Some of those are “new attacks will be launched after Ramadan ends” and “Uzbek …

Tensions are rising on the border of Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan as citizens and guards are being detained by authorities on either side, neweurasia’s Marat reports. The local economy is becoming disrupted, and recriminations are being shot back and forth.

Kyrgyzstan’s Independence Day is tomorrow, August 31. neweurasia’s Marat shares his thoughts about the perils and problems faced by his country on its nineteenth birthday, from intense debt to geopolitics to the troubles in the South. “Happy birthday, Kyrgyzstan!” he writes. “I hope this is not your last one…”

(courtesy of azattyk.kg)
Well, here we are finally. The self-proclaimed nationalist and anti-OSCE mayor Melis Myrzakmatov gave it away: “The [interim] governments’ rulings bear no juridical binding in the south.”
As we mentioned earlier, the mayor of …

No single international organization had faced such a criticism and dislike in Kyrgyzstan as OSCE did lately. The dislike is virtually flowing out of the “second capital” – Osh that recently suffered from wide-scale bloodletting …

“The island of democracy” in Central Asia is sinking at the speed of one political regime every five years. With the current status quo, it is at the brink of complete disappearance – breaking up …

A call in the night
My uncle’s son never calls me at 2 am in the morning. But on the night of June 11 he did so to wake me and to find out if I …