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Social change VS. music of Tajikistan. Part II: Where is the way out?
Written by on Saturday, 27 April 2013
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Social change VS. music of Tajikistan. Part II: Where is the way out?

In this article I would like to talk about the way the disappearing traditional music genres may survive in the situation of economic stagnation, social insecurity and absence of politics’ interest. I have started the discussion in one of me previous articles “Social change VS. music of Tajikistan. Part I: The Son of the Tomb”

How many people in Turkmenistan are technically “stateless”?
Written by on Thursday, 25 April 2013
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How many people in Turkmenistan are technically “stateless”?

NewEurasia received this communiqué, which makes us wonder how many people in Turkmenistan, who were members of other Soviet republics when the Union collapsed and got trapped inside the new Turkmen state, are officially registered …

Central Asian literature: what’s on the cards?
Written by on Tuesday, 23 April 2013
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Central Asian literature: what’s on the cards?

‘Come to the Russian stand, I’ll meet you there’, says Hamid Ismailov, a writer from Uzbekistan, the head of the BBC Central Asian and Caucasus Service, a quiet and soft-spoken gentleman in a black velveteen jacket. It’s the last day of the London Book Fair 2013, and I’m visiting the huge Earls Court Exhibition

Let the Jazz be!
Written by on Monday, 22 April 2013
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Let the Jazz be!

VIII International Festival “Jazz_Bishkek_Spring” – 2013 started on April, 19 in the capital of Kyrgyzstan. The organizer of the Festival, The Public Fund “Central Asia – Art Management” (PF CAAM), gave the fans of jazz …

The Eurasia Connection: the Tsarnaev brothers as pawns of “secret services”
Written by on Saturday, 20 April 2013
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The Eurasia Connection: the Tsarnaev brothers as pawns of “secret services”

What, if any, is the connection between the Boston bombings and Kyrgyzstan? NewEurasia’s Schwartz suspects not much. What will be more interesting, he says, is how online forums shall start thinking about the possible linkages.

Voice of Internet
Written by on Friday, 19 April 2013
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Citizen Journalism among internet users of Kyrgyzstan became more and more popular. There are a lot of internet space and platforms, which journalists use as a new tool. News spreading becomes universal and fast. Politicians …

Instrumental Rap in Dushanbe
Written by on Thursday, 18 April 2013
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Instrumental Rap in Dushanbe

An instrumental rap concert took place in Dushanbe, in Manhattan club on April the 12th.  Usually I do not trust any rap event organized in Dushanbe for it is very often, and even more then …

What connects Austria and Kyrgyzstan?
Written by on Tuesday, 16 April 2013
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Editor’s note: This story was written by Aigerim Mamyrova
Although there was signed a memorandum of agreement between the company «Askin & Co GmbH and the Eye Microsurgery Hospital of Almazbek Ismankulov, but the cooperation has been …

Rain outside the walls of “Ilkhom”
Written by on Tuesday, 16 April 2013
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Rain outside the walls of “Ilkhom”

Tashkent “Ilkhom” theater has opened on 13 April the unique project – Laboratory of young directors of Central Asia. It is attended by directors from Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. Laboratory stage the play “The rain outside the wall” with the famous Russian director Vladimir Pankov. Under … leaking roof of the theater

Shocking video from Kyrgyz orphanage «Meerim Bulagi»
Written by on Monday, 15 April 2013
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NewEurasia has published story These Orphanages Should Not Exist! by Aida Aizeman about violence in Kyrgyz private orphanage “Meerim Bulagi”. Video, that this blogger sent to us last week, is really shocking. We publish it without comments.