Archive sections: ‘Living in Interesting Times’
Is that Good News – or Bad News? – THE KEY WORD IS “RECOVERY” The world is beginning to hear about the Kyrgyz Republic . Articles are appearing in foreign newspapers and on foreign TV News programmes, not to mention on the “information superhighway” – the internet.
After a quiet weekend – perhaps the turn in the weather had something to do with that – I sat down on the Sunday morning and wrote: I hoping that this will be the last of the “emergency” postcards … We seem to have dropped off the radar as far as international news coverage is [...]
This was begun on Friday evening – but completed and sent on the Saturday morning. I want to thank everyone who has written to me, either in response to a postcard, or directly, expressing concern over the situation here. I hope you will understand if it takes a while to catch up with individual replies [...]
The day after … It is six o’clock in the morning … I’ve just come down to the office. You have probably seen the reports on the BBC, CNN, etc., So I thought I would write a quick update – although the situation is still unclear, and my main source of news is exactly the [...]
The day before the events of the Tulip Revolution unfolded in Bishkek. A parliamentary election had been held, and many people were disatisfied with the results … the opposition claimed that the elections had been “rigged” so the supporters of President Akaev were elected. Many of the international observers monitoring the conduct of the elections also reported that they [...]
As an ex-pat living in Bishkek during the “Tulip Revolution” and witnessing the events of 24th March, 2005, Iwrote a series of messages to friends and relatives to reassure them that he was safe … and describe some of his experiences and reactions. These messages are reproduced here.
