Before we dive into the new week, a little catch-up with activities on our colourful range of country weblogs:

kyrgyzstan.neweurasia.net
After Shirin has joined the blog crew last week, please welcome another Kyrgyz contributor on the blog. In his first post. Mirsuljan, the Coordinator of the Youth Movement “Birge!â€?, writes about Kyrgyzstan’s youth policy. Also, Claire has a new news round-up from Bishkek.

azerbaijan.neweurasia.net
Marianna has written a post-election week summary, while Ben has written about demonstrations in Baku. The protests, however, fell short of their expectations and failed to inject a ‘revolutionary mood’ into the streets.

turkmenistan.neweurasia.net
Rico writes about flour shortages that could jeopardise the positive impact of the record grain harvest: Bread will remain scarce.

kazakhstan.neweurasia.net
James reports on US development assistance to Central Asia – or the lack of it.

uzbekistan.neweurasia.net
There is a lot of new stuff on the Uzbekistan blog: Olesya takes a closer look at the Sunshine Uzbekistan Coalition; Nick has some intriguing quotes of former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray; and again Olesya tells us that the FBI might be opening an office in Tashkent.

And: We’re looking for more bloggers to join our team, especially for the Georgia, Armenia and Tajikistan blogs. Please get in touch with ben(at)thinking-east.net