Erne_raj wrote [ru]:

Chingiz Torekulovich is no more… But he left his scent in minds, hearts and history!

Baisalov told [ru]:

Aitmatov was more than just writer for Kyrgyz nation and Kyrgyzstan. He was the pride and the glory of the Kyrgyz people. He was the face of the nation. We haven’t enough words to describe the place which he took in the heart of every Kyrgyz. Aitmatov was a real artist. He didn’t copy off his heroes and didn’t put real life in his work: he was creating his characters. World knew about Kyrgyz nature, destiny and soul by way of Aitmatov. All Kyrgyz’s will be observed and appreciated through the prism of the Aitmatov’s mythology. We are living and we are condemned to live in the universe of Aitmatov, because the images of Aitmatov, heroes, persons, tragedies became our own life.

keenza said [ru]:

He was incredible profound man, one of me favorite writers. I was amazed with his attitude to the death…

sarannee grieved [ru]:

So great man died. What a pity. I was growing with his books and I now I have a feeling like something was taken away.

Blogger azzzik also was at the funeral ceremony for Aitmatov and published some photos.

Human nature can’t grieve for a long time and another event came to the Kyrgyz blogosphere soon: Euro Championship.

It is funny, but soccer united our nation and we all have been fan of Russia during these days.

dancheg was excited [ru]:

The windows were trembling from every goal; there were the happy shouts from every house, from every café. People were driving, signaling, triumphing and scanning. I haven’t seen such happiness and unanimity in Kyrgyzstan…

Khaan told [ru]:

All visitors of café were fans of Russia. All were crying and hugging each other after every goal. Seems all city became a fan of Russia. After the game between Russia and Netherlands there were a lot cars with Russian flags and the main streets were blocked by crowds of fans. Ole!

makaroff noticed [ru]:

All CIS was a fan or Russia. We are real brothers. We have nothing divided. Russia go ahead!

Let's hope that the future will bring Kyrgyzstan another happy events what could really unite our nation…

Also posted on neweurasia.

Blogger baisalov wrote [ru]:

Miss Tourism looks like Filipino and other east-Asian beauties. I think, first vice-miss Tourism has more or less averaged and typical face of Kyrgyzstan.

simpu joked [ru]

Last two girls are more or less attractive. I am clever man and I understand that their appeal is because of make-up.

One more “fashion event”. Russian newspaper “Komsomolskaja Pravda” published an article “Kyrgyzstan – Fatherland of Dior” about the incomes from clothing manufacturing in Kyrgyzstan.

Mirsulzhan read this article and doubted [ru]:

“Well, this article has some questionable numbers and arguments. For example: from 1 million 200 thousands of Bishkek residents, 800 thousands are working in the clothing manufacture. But we have something to think about. For example, we can think about the change of clothing manufacture to a legal activity to make fakes of the worldwide brands”.

aka_b_m also put in doubt some facts from the article [ru].

“I doubt about “from 1 million 200 thousands of Bishkek residents, 800 thousands are working in clothing manufacture” and “”Russians are the owners of most of the business”. But, in general this is true and timely article”.

Meanwhile, Kyrgyz police will take a special course on how to be correct with the foreign tourists. Moreover, there will be special stickers “Aigul” for foreign tourists. If the car has such stickers, Kyrgyz police hasn’t right to stop this car, except in cases when the driver really broke the law.

Mirsulzhan told [ru]:

“When I have a car I will buy this sticker and everyone should do the same”.

khaan demured:

“No, it isn’t worthy of it. Such stickers will help our police to point out that there is a rich person in the car”.

Anyway, the main question of the Diesel Forum users was: what or who is Aigul? Only one user scan explained why stickers called “Aigul” [ru]:

“The flower Aigul grows at the “Aigul-too” mountain in the Batken region. It flowers once a year on the second half of May. That is an object of the pride of the locals, because this flower exists in Pakistan and Kyrgyzstan only and nowhere more”.

There was an informal summit of the Heads of States of CIS in Saint Petersburg, where President of Kyrgyzstan Kurmanbek Bakiev delivered a speech.

baisalov disappointed with the speech of the President [ru].

“Impression is the same: “crisises are becoming deeper and deeper”, “we need to create a Eurasia development fund”, and at last he suggested all to join the global communism. There weren’t any words about Kyrgyzstan. Why didn’t Bakiev use the chance with such a big tribune to highlight our national economical interests and to tell about the priority projects which need direct investments? Why?”

mirsulzhan also criticized the suggestion of Kurmanbek Bakiev to create a Global economic program to eliminate the gap between rich and poor countries by charity [ru].

“Every country whether it is Zimbabwe or Kyrgyzstan, should be responsible for solving their own problems. I think the problems in these countries are solvable. It is irresponsible to move the responsibility to other people. These countries should realize that their problems are solvable at 100%”.

Also posted on neweurasia.

“To be honest, I was afraid that the participants of the meeting wouldn’t take an interest into each other. People are different ages, tastes and interests. The only mutual thing we have are blogs. But I has been wrong, because the atmosphere of the meeting was just marvelous”.

Edil Baisalov, aka baisalov, one of the famous Kyrgyz blogger which began to post in his blog again after his scandal with the voting paper and escaping to Sweden commented [ru] this meeting.

“My congratulations! Now you can hold the different parties, meeting and political debates like in Moscow Russian LJ-bloggers do. There is one potential minus. If you know to each other, will be friends, will it be possible to have a variety of the opinions, or the Kyrgyz bloggers will have a group think?”

Kazakhstan’s blogger mantrovkz told [ru]:

“It’s positive meeting. The Kyrgyz bloggers are cool. Having such cute team you can easy make some business. I think you will find any needed specialist among the Kyrgyz bloggers”.

The other “relaxing” event became the arrival of the famous Russian rock-group Spleen to Bishkek. Unfortunately, the rainy weather made shorten the concert, but the Kyrgyz bloggers were lucky to make the excellent photos.

smilingyulka posted [ru] some photos from the concert and timurrs presented [ru] very nice portraits of the singer of Spleen.

When someone was relaxing, someone was fighting.

The scandal with the Speaker Adahan Madumarov became the most unexpected event of the last week of May. Baisalov wrote [ru]:

“I’ve forgotten about the days, when people adored Adahan and looked with admiration at him. How did he perform at the parliament tribune, meetings and the newspapers! You should see this! When I heard that the most important achievement of his activity as the Speaker according to his words became a removal of a rubbish, I was very upset for myself”.

Some blogger zigeunerin-kgz told [ru]:

“Adahan Madumarov resigned. Is it possible that there won’t be any snarls, spiteful notes and impudent comments about every speech of the Kyrgyz depuites?”

Meanwhile, the group of users, registered at one of the most famous Kyrgyz forum Diesel decided to write a letter to the President Kurmanbek Bakiev. The users were going to insist on making a special commission to search the reasons of the limitation of the electricity and the increasing of the prices. The users didn’t content themselves with discussing these sharp questions at forum. They hold a press-conference at the news agency.

One of the users Diesel Forum, an engineer Evgeniy Pankratov told [ru]:

“Sauns are working at nights, villas have electricity round a clock, but the ordinary citizens, hospitals and schools are without the electrical light. The government should reveal the objective reasons and punish persons who are guilty of the energy crisis”

Another user and a bank worker Rustam Abykeev told [ru]:

“The government should find the alternative steps to help to solve the problems of the vulnerable populations. For example, provide monthly food package for pensioners”.

The participants of the enterprising civil group from Diesel Forum told that if they didn’t receive an answer from the President, they would obtain it through the court.

Anyway, the limitation of usage of electricity has been cancelled for summer time recently.
We shall see what we shall see…

Also posted on neweurasia.net

On 1st May, the Communist’s party held the short meeting at the Old Square in Bishkek. There were a lot of people who held the portraits of Lenin and the old soviet flags. It was really strange demonstration, because the communists also hung the scarecrow of the president of USA George Bush during the meeting.

Lj-user Lvenks even called [ru] this demonstration as “a parade of the insane”.

Esterinna told [ru]:

“I can’t believe my eyes. Is it possible that somewhere people are holding the portraits of Lenin?”

A member of the Communist’s party Sergei Kozhemjakin aka kojemyakin explained why they hung the scarecrow of the president of USA George Bush [ru].

“This scarecrow with the face of George Bush is a symbol of the main capitalistic power – USA. The Labor Day or the Day of the defence of the working-people is the best day to jeer at the capitalism, because the capitalism is the main enemy of the working-people”.

It looks as if the Constitution’s Day was celebrated by only officials, because no Kyrgyz bloggers told about this day.

But there was a start of the AFC Challenge Cup qualifies at 5th May also and this event was more interesting. Blogger Azzzik has made really good photos of the games.

Bekulia commented the game of Kyrgyzstan with Afghanistan [ru]:

“Photo really good reproduced the game’s aura. I feel if I looked this game myself. I am very sad for our guys; they really wanted to win the game”.

During the holiday week ex-prime-minister Felix Kulov were appointed the head of the directorate of the project about the development small and medium energy sources of Kyrgyzstan.

Politicized users of Diesel Forum responded to this news instantly.

Bekson told [ru]:

“This project should be one of the departments at the Ministry of the energetic. What for do the officials produce so much projects, agencies and directorates?”

Seraf thought [ru]:

“They will build the small hydroelectric power stations and will start to export the energy. But the prime cost will be more expensive and it won’t facilitate the deficiency of the electricity on the internal market. One good thing about this is the work places only”.

On the Victory’s Day a lot of bloggers posted the congratulations to the war veterans.

911 steroids said [ru]

“I think, this is the only holiday when we are getting closer and kinder. My congratulations for you, our dear war veterans!”

Also posted on neweurasia.

A fall of temperature has happened not only to nature, but to the Russian-Kyrgyz relations too. A Russian soldier was heavy injured in an incident between Russian militaries from the Russian airbase in Kant city and the Kyrgyz police. Many people consider this incident as a threat for the Kyrgyz-Russian relationships.

svetofor_kg told [ru]:

The officers from the Russian airbase can be very impudent and would not mind striving for the others' wives and brides. They consider that Kyrgyzstan is a beachhead where they can do anything without any care about the Kyrgyz laws.

Jeffrey Broman opines[eng]:

“Since when have the Kyrgyz police in Bishkek been the least bit concerned with enforcing traffic laws? I smell a coverup”.

An increase of the tariffs for the transport, electricity and heating became another “hot” subject to discuss. FinalFantazy told [ru]:

They will shake out the souls of the ordinary citizens soon. There will be money only to buy soap and a rope from the pensions and salaries to be hung.

An announcement of the President of Kyrgyzstan Kurmanbek Bakiev that “we can see such a big reduction of the corruption’s level in few places” has aroused indignation among the Kyrgyz blogosphere.

grgreg writes [ru]:

Yes, of course. We can’t see such reduction of the corruption in any state. The size of the bribes increased two-three times more in last 3 years in Kyrgyzstan. Such process isn’t called “reduction” in any country…

Recently some politicians suggested equating Internet with Media. The Kyrgyz bloggers became anxious.

salva08 thinks: [ru]

it’s totally ludicrous! They don’t know anything about IT. Internet can be tracked, but can’t be controlled. This is a conclusion of Pentagon in 2005.

Tarantino adds [ru]:

Equally well Kyrgyzstan can announce itself a worldwide leader. Theoretically, Internet can be equated with Media at the legislative level. But where is a realization? How can be our jurisdiction applied for the foreign servers? The domain names in Kyrgyzstan zone don’t belong to the state legally. Our politicians should stop thinking soviet-union style. Internet can’t be restricted”.

For instance, beketova wrote [ru]:

“It’s rubbish. To write something just to shock more. Like that scandal story about Borat, when Kazakhstan fell prey to a casual selection. Film doesn’t sound Kazakhstan anyway!”

svetofor_kg noticed that Erin Finnerty has been doing research for a few years [ru]:

“In general, the Slavic people were drug addicts up to 2003 year (according to the statistic 1990-2003). Later drug addicts appeared between the indigenous populations, although, there are more drug couriers among the [native peoples] of Central Asian nations. Everybody knows the houses of the drug barons in Osh. It is compared that heroin in Kyrgyzstan is cheaper that 1 kilo of apples (40 versus 50 soms). The indigenous habitants of Bishkek form a marginal part of the population of Kyrgyzstan and aren’t representative [of the entire nation, they are] like an enclave. There are heroin and vodka in the regions. So, make conclusion yourself”.

The discussion also attracted the author of the photos, Rena Effendi, who left a comment about this article. She wrote [ru]:

“My name is Rena Effendi, I live and work in Azerbaijan. I’ve decided to reply to you, because you have some opinions without any hysteria and people are trying to understand the situation. One must not judge the article and the report only by the one headline. The headlines are always too scandalous and are generalized in order to simplify [the story] and attract a reader. When you read the article you will understand that there aren’t any general conclusions. The matter concerns the region in the South of the country – Osh city. The article describes the stories of real people. Personally, when I visited that place, I couldn’t ignore this situation. This problem is really serious. The government and the parliament should gather and think about improving the situation instead of useless hysteria. The aim of such reports is to attract attention to the defined problems and not to slander a country and harm tourism. Such reports appear everywhere all the time. But some ex-Soviet-Union countries (and my country, also) have some oversensitive reactions about this. [It is] Like a post-Soviet inferiority complex”.

As a result of the visit of President of Kyrgyzstan Kurmanbek Bakiev to Kazakhstan, there were some discussion the last few days about the transmission of land parcels and 4 resorts at Issyk-Kul Lake to Kazakhstan. An opposition youth tried to hold a protest action against the transmission of the lands to Kazakhstan, but the police detained all participants of the action for half an hour.

Azzzik was shocked by the actions of Kyrgyz police [ru]:

“According to news, 30 policemen detained all participants, 50 people. Roughly speaking, every militiaman pushed to the bus 2 people. Bravo militiamen! Our valiant guards must already inspire fear for the antiglobalists, for example, which can’t be managed with the European police. It’s time to send our militiamen abroad to hold the master classes”.

Next there was a large discussion about the wildcat strike of mini-buses (aka “marshrutka”) drivers, last week. The drivers insisted on increasing their prices, but, in the end, the prices remained the same. Kloop.kg quoted some opinions about the strike.

“When I have been standing at the bus stop, I noticed that there were more people than usual. Having been standing more than one hour, I understood that something was going wrong”, blogger Azat_ik wrote [ru].

Livejournal user dmitriymaslov explained why he would prefer mini-buses [ru]:

“It is sad, if the drivers have began to strike. They are irreplaceable in the transport system of the ex-Soviet Union countries. Autobuses and trolleybuses can’t be the way out, because people are used to the speed of the transportation and ready to refuse service in favor of speed. “Marshrutka” are the solution, with crazy drivers that are ready to drive however and anywhere. The main aim is to drive with high speed with the maximum number of passengers. I choose marshrutka”.

A suggestion by the Woman’s Discussion Club to legalize commercial sex aroused a gust of negative opinions on forums:

“If we legalize commercial sex, we would become more criminal. Instead of giving women a good education and providing jobs, the authority wants to solve the problem of unemployment among the youth in a fast and profitable way. It is very easy to come down. But to make something adequate is very hard. All the people from the Women’s Discussion Club are sponsored by foreign funds. The main aim of such funds is to seduce our youth and deprive us of a future”, dr.dux said [ru].

However, the recent government opposition convention passed almost unnoticed, indicating that perhaps Kyrgyz society is tired of public actions and protests. Aka_b_m mocked opposition [ru]:

“The slogan of the opposition can be translated from Kyrgyz language “Truth is flexible, but doesn’t break”. This is very symbolic for this opposition. If suggest that for money, they are really flexible and aren’t obstinate. Although, the right sense of the slogan is “The truth will always come out”.