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July 5th, 2009
Does Global Financial Crisis Affect Kyrgyzstan?
Slon.ru writes [ru] that global financial crisis started in the February, 2007. That month Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) stopped the buying-out the subprime mortgages. A lot of American and European banks take up the lead of Freddie Mac in Summer, 2007. It leaded to the ...
May 1st, 2009
Kyrgyzstan: Government Acts to Prevent Swine Flu
The import of all types of meat products from the United States and Mexico is banned in Kyrgyzstan now. Deputy Director of the Department of Veterinary Kubanychbek Musakeev explained [ru], that the government imposed this restriction because of the worldwide spread of the swine flu. According to Musakeev's ...
April 25th, 2009
Kyrgyzstan: Lame Ad Design Spurred Nationalist Debates
On April, 22, a deputy Askarbek Shadiev criticized the advertisement billboard of the Swiss Office for Cooperation [en] during the session of the faction "Ak Zhol" party. Deputy was outraged by the placing the white cross image on the flag of Kyrgyzstan by unknown designer.
There is a big poster ...
March 7th, 2009
Kyrgyzstan: No Rest For the Internet
The head of the State Patent Department [en] Ulan Melisbek told [ru] that this department will try to take control of the service registration of domain names in the .kg zone.
Ulan Melisbek is sure that the .kg zone represents the national interests, and its administration should be under state control, ...
March 2nd, 2009
Kyrgyzstan: Photo-roundup with not a word about politics
A winter time is ending, and Kyrgyzstan is waiting for the hot spring: the rallies, protest actions and so on. But let's talk about beauty, not about the endless politic. What was the photowinter in Kyrgyzstan?
Livejournal user doctormoro posted the unique photos of the famous Kyrgyz actor Suymenkul Chokmorov. The ...
February 23rd, 2009
Kyrgyzstan: Back Count for the U.S. Airbase
On February, 19th, 2009 nearly all Krrgyz MPs approved a motion denouncing the agreement between Kyrgyzstan and the USA about the American airbase at Manas. Of 89 total MPs, 78 voted for, one against, and two abstained:
The government, in the name of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, after signing by ...
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