While debates over the appropriateness of participating in Halloween fun rage [1] in Tajikistan, young people in the neighboring Kyrgyzstan revel in Halloween festivities. The country's most popular blogging platform has published [2] [ru] a map of all venues organizing Halloween festivities in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan's capital. Dozens of people dressed up in zombie costumes took part in the “zombie walk [3]” in central Bishkek. A photo essay published by a Kyrgyzstani blogger shows [4] that schoolchildren too joined in celebrating the holiday by carving pumpkins and improvising costumes.
Young People Revel In Halloween Fun in Kyrgyzstan
· Written by Alexander Sodiqov
Categories: Central Asia & Caucasus, Kyrgyzstan, Arts & Culture, Citizen Media, Youth