· August, 2006

Stories about Kyrgyzstan from August, 2006

Kyrgyzstan: Fear of the Police

  29 August 2006

Tolkun Umaraliev writes about the low reputation and public fear of the police in Kyrgyzstan, and he solicits comments from readers about their opinions on the police.

Kyrgyzstan: Bishkek's Beauty

29 August 2006

JJ discovers the beauties of Bishkek, “a beautiful, safe, comfortable, green, modern and very pleasant place to live.” For the employed, anyway…

Kyrgyzstan: Afterthoughts on US Relations

  28 August 2006

Yulia has thoughts on Kyrgyzstan's relations with the United States and President Kurmanbek Bakiev's foreign policy tendencies after an eventful summer in the bilateral relations between the US and Kyrgyzstan.

Central Asia: Borders 2

  23 August 2006

Ben Paarmann has posted part two of his series of posts on the determination of Central Asia's national borders during the Soviet period.

Kyrgyzstan: A Trip to Sheker

  22 August 2006

JJ recently took a short trip to the village of Sheker in Kyrgyzstan and writes about both the trip and the town's famous son, famed Kyrgyz author Chingiz Aitmatov.

Former Soviet Union: 15 Years Since the August Coup

  19 August 2006

Today is 15 years since the beginning of the events that some people consider (RUS) Russia's Orange Revolution – but which are better known as the August Putsch. This year, on August 20 and 21, memorial services will be held in Moscow for Dmitry Komar, Ilya Krichevsky and Vladimir Usov,...

Central Asia: Borders

  17 August 2006

Ben Paarmann begins to examine the reasons for Central Asia's current borders, which are often incorrectly called “arbitrary.”

Kyrgyzstan: Death Penalty

  7 August 2006

Yulia of neweurasia translates a Russian language post on the debate over the death penalty in Kyrgyzstan.

Kyrgyzstan: Ukrainian Debt

  4 August 2006

Yulia of neweurasia translates a Russian post about Ukraine's declaration that it has no debt to Kyrgyzstan, a claim that a Kyrgyz official actually backed up. The author of the post says that this act again confirms that there are no professionals in power in Kyrgyzstan.

Kyrgyzstan: Expelled

  2 August 2006

Registan.net notes the expulsion of two Kyrgyz diplomats from the United States, most likely as a response to the expulsion of two US diplomats from Kyrgyzstan last month.