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Kyrgyzstan: Back to the USSR, or forward to the past.

Written byAdil Nurmakov
Posted 3 December 2007 17 years ago

Asel reflects on the usage of old Soviet terminology for the trademarks and brand marketing in Kyrgyzstan. “Probably, it is just a bit of PR to attract clients, but there are certainly those who do not really welcome this kind of PR ideas”, she says.

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