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Kyrgyzstan: It’s not Kafkaesque, but it is boring

Written byPaul Frankenstein
Posted 20 July 2005 20 years ago

David Read, who writes the Kyrgyzstan blog Pretend You're Dread, has been trying to get a birth certificate for his son and get married to his girlfriend. Unfortunately, the Kyrgyz bureaucracy isn't quite flexible enough to deal with his situation…

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