Archive: May 10th, 2010
About 520 km from Bishkek, 125 km (1.5 hours), from Naryn, 17 km from the end of the paved road (just after the emergency airstrip) 90 km (1.5 hours) short of the border at Torugart, and at an altitude of about 3500m above sea level is the ancient caravanserai of Tash Rabat. According to one [...]
There has been a big change over the years in the questions I get asked about my being here in Kyrgyzstan. The main question that I used to be asked was how I came to end up here, in small, remote, country, so far from home. In recent times, however, the question I seem to [...]
The events of 6th and 7th of April in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, were nothing short of extraordinary. They brought with them great sadness, renewed hope, tragic destruction, victorious triumph and, above all, confusion about what to do next. Ian Claytor, General Director of the Celestial Mountains Companies in Kyrgyzstan, has lived in Bishkek for nearly 15 [...]
One of our partners, is “Silk Road Media”, a publishing house established by Marat Akhmedjanov, an Uzbek citizen, who is based in London. I actually consider them to be one of our most important partners … Why?, well, because one of the most valuable commodities in the modern world is information, especially about a new [...]
