Archive: April, 2010
In another postcard I wrote about how I had decided against taking a trip to the World Exhibition of Sustainable Mountain Development in Grenoble, France, at the end of April, as a result of the Easter Revolution. As it happens, even if I hadn’t taken that decision, I almost certainly would have had problems making [...]
This week, there was an earthquake in eastern Kazakhstan which, according to the United States Geological Survey, measured 4.5 on the Richter scale, (or whatever modification of the scale they use these days). Some tremors were apparently felt here in Bishkek, although it wasn’t serious and I can’t say that I was particularly aware of [...]
Bakiev has left Kazakhstan and apparently landed in Byelorussia. It is very odd … apparently he has been joined by his family … but not his sons Maxim and Marat who, according to the press, ensconced somewhere else. If the reports I have seen are to be believed then it seems that he has a [...]
Following the Maevka incident, the interim government vowed to restore order to the streets of Bishkek. Back in 2005, the new government, that time headed by one Kurmanbek Bakiev, commissioned Feliks Kulov to restore order. He was helped in his task by volunteers from various sports associations, martial arts teams and so on, who formed [...]
Following the events of the Easter Revolution, and the eventual resignation of President Bakiev, it might have been assumed that things would settle down and we could all get on with rebuilding our lives, our businesses and society.
One of the tasks that I fall to me from time to time is to make statements to the press about this or that. It’s not a task that I relish. I have always tried to keep a “low profile”, but it is not always possible. As one of the relatively few foreign investors here [...]
People were genuinely surprised on Monday when the city witnessed a march by crowds of young people demanding that they be allocated land in order to build houses. It’s funny that people don’t remember that we faced the same sort of incidents back in 2005. The incident got reported in the Russian press and we [...]
Roza Isakovna OTUNBAEVA was born in 1950 in Osh, in what was then the Kyrgyz Socialist Soviet Republic, one of the constituent republics of the USSR.
It’s a week since I last wrote a postcard about the recent events here in Kyrgyzstan … and as the former British Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, once commented, “A week is a long time in politics.” It has certainly been a long week … an eventful week.
The curious case of the Matrushka Doll may seem like a plot from a James Bond movie, but it had serious implications for, and almost led to the downfall of, the fledgling government following the Tulip Revolution. Following the sudden and unexpected change of power in Kyrgyzstan on March 24, 2005, a split occurred in the victorious [...]
