Archive: April 28th, 2010
Apart from the Maevka incident, which was widely reported here and in Russia, but received only limited coverage in the West as far as I can tell – presumably because there was so much else going on in the world: elections, volcanic eruptions, sports matches and the like – everything is fairly quiet here. The [...]
The Kumtor Gold Mine is an open-pit gold mining site in the Issyk Kul oblast, about 350 km (220 miles) southeast of the capital Bishkek and 80 km (50 mi) south of Lake Issyk-Kul, near the border with China. It is said to be the seventh-largest gold deposit in the world and the world’s second highest [...]
“When I was a lad, I served a term, as office boy in an attorney’s firm …” sings Sir Joseph Porter, First Lord of the Admiralty, in Gilbert and Sullivan’s popular operetta, “HMS Pinafore”. I sometimes joke that this is really “my song” because, although I wasn’t exactly a lad when I arrived here in [...]
