Stories about Kyrgyzstan from April, 2007
Kyrgyzstan: Kemin Photos
LJ user morrire has photos from Kemin (ru), where a by-election for Kyrgzystan's parliament just took place.
Central Asia: The EU's New Plan
Near|Abroad discusses the European Union's new diplomacy plans for engaging Central Asia.
Central Asia: Old Photographs
Sue Sypko discusses how photographs taken by Russian Imperial and Soviet photographers communicate different meanings.
Kyrgyzstan: Protest's Final Day
Mirsulzhan Namazaliev reports from the scene on the final day of Kyrgyzstan's protests. In the wake of the dispersal of protesters, the government has been harassing opposition members and opposition...
Kyrgyzstan: Pandora's Box
Beau Gordinier reports on the government's dispersal of protesters demanding the president's resignation in Kyrgyzstan, and discusses what comes next in Kyrgyz politics.
Kyrgyzstan: The Crackdown
Teo Kaye reports that protests against Kyrgyzstan's president in Bishkek have been broken up for now.
Kyrgyzstan: Opposition Rally Photos
Elena Skochilo posts photos of the ongoing opposition protests (ru) in Kyrgyzstan.
Kyrgyzstan: Bishkek Baby Sales
At The Golden Road to Samarqand, Amira discusses recent reports of the sale of babies from hospital's in Kyrgyzstan's capital, Bishkek. Amira, who spent a lot of time visiting a...
Kyrgyzstan: Bishkek Baby Sales
At The Golden Road to Samarqand, Amira discusses recent reports of the sale of babies from hospital's in Kyrgyzstan's capital, Bishkek. Amira, who spent a lot of time visiting a...
Kyrgyzstan: Impressions from a Protest, pt. 2
Tolkun Umaraliev reports on the second day of protests in Bishkek calling for the president to resign.
Central Asia: Hot Air & the Aral
Bonnie Boyd writes that since 1991, there has been more hot air than progress on saving the Aral Sea.
Kyrgyzstan: Same protests as every year
Kyrgyzstan's post-revolution turmoil is not cooling down even two years after the ouster of ex-President Akayev. The newest episode of opposition protests echoes previous rallies on Bishkek's main square, and will likely yield similar amounts of success, namely very little.
Kyrgyzstan: Reports form the Protest
The Kyrgyzstan blog at neweurasia carries numerous posts reporting on the protests in Bishkek against President Kurmanbek Bakiev, including one from Tolkun Umaraliev in which he writes his impressions of...
Kyrgyzstan: The PM, Info War, & Graffiti
Teo Kaye reports on the ongoing protests in Bishkek against the president, focusing on anger against the prime minister, the information war between the two sides, and the political graffiti...
Central Asia & Caucasus: Corporate Philanthropy
At neweurasia, Marianna argues that NGOs need to develop a culture of giving across Central Asia and the Caucasus to encourage local corporate support of the work that NGOs do.
Kyrgyzstan: Protests Begin
Teo Kaye reports that protests against President Kurmanbek Bakiev have begun in cities across northern Kyrgyzstan, but that turnout is not as high as press accounts claim it to be.
Kyrgyzstan: Tajikistan in the 90s
Vadim draws parallels between Tajik politics in the 1990s and the current political situation in Kyrgyzstan, saying that Kyrgyzstan must do what it can to avoid making the mistakes Tajikistan...
Central Asia: Interview with a Scholar
neweurasia interviews well known American Central Asia scholar Martha Brill Olcott.
Central Asia: Climate Change
Bonnie Boyd reports on how climate change affects Central Asia.
Russia, Central Asia: Russian Diaspora
Siberian Light links to neweurasia‘s stories on the Russian Germans and ethnic Russians living in Central Asia.
Kyrgyzstan: Deepening Divisions
Kyrgyz Report says that a prominent opposition leader in Kyrgyzstan is worried that the current tensions between the president and his former prime minister, who is currently trying to unite...