Archive sections: ‘Kyrgyzstan’
One of the newswires that I subscribe to had a link today to an interesting article in the Guardian newspaper about the growing pressure of work on mountain rescue services in the UK. It caught my attention because Kyrgyzstan is a mountainous country and I wondered about the situation here in Kyrgyzstan. In fact I [...]
As the old year draws to a close, I got a bit of a surprise today when I saw the following entry in my daily “google alert” for Kyrgyzstan: Asian Countries Solar Eclipse 4 January 2011 Timing : Solar … By admin In Asia, 4 Jan 2011 Solar Eclipse will be visible in few Asian Countries like [...]
I’m off to Naryn for my regular monthly visit to the guesthouse. The main road from Bishkek to Naryn offers a wide variety of landscapes, and although I know the route well, travelling it about 150 times, (at least once a month over the last twelve and a half years), I never tire of the [...]
In the post about Izhkak Razzakov, I mentioned that after his death in 1979, his body was buried in the Kuntsevskom Cemetery in Moscow, but that in 2000 his remains were returned to his native Kyrgyzstan and interred in the Ala Archa cemetery in Bishkek. Somebody wrote me an email saying that they were confused – as [...]
Who could possibly confuse Kyrgyzstan with the Ivory Coast? Why did news reports about the election results in this small West African country strike a chord with me this week? Could it simply be related to the fact that we have also had a recent election drama or that both countries seem to be divided [...]
I was coming home from a meeting in the Hyatt tonight and it was bitterly cold, (-6 degrees Celsius, but with a wind chill factor that made it feel like -10), and slippery underfoot, so I decided that even though it wasn’t far, I would take a precaution and get a taxi. As we drove [...]
There are no Lords, Ladies, Knights, Barons or Earls in Kyrgyzstan, and the Order of Lenin is no longer issued, but the country does have a system for honouring its citizens (and foreigners) and recognizing their contributions to society and the development of various aspects of the social, economic, intellectual and cultural life of the [...]
“Christmas is coming and the goose is getting fat”, goes the old seasonal children’s rhyme. Well, Christmas is definitely coming … and Goose was the traditional fayre for Christmas dinner in Victorian England – whilst, at the same time, it was a rare treat. In A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens wrote that in the poor [...]
In the west it is commonly said that if you look at the moon you can see the face of the “Man in the Moon”. The Kyrgyz know, however, that this is a mistake – it is really the face of the “Girl in the Moon”. I was reminded of the legend this afternoon as [...]
Yesterday. December 11th, was International Mountain Day. If that caught you by surprise, don’t worry about it … it seems to have gone almost unnoticed, even here in Kyrgyzstan where something like 94% of the country is classified as mountainous and the demarcation of December 11th as International Mountain Day is actually the result of [...]
