Postcard from Bishkek

Wednesday morning I had a meeting in the offices of KATO, (the Kyrgyz Association of Tour Operators). Just down the corridor from their office is that of the company that prints the stamps for the Kyrgyz office.  A short while the executive Director of KATO took me into their office and we spent about 30 [...]

When I first came to Kyrgyzstan, back in 1995, people often quoted, almost as a mantra, that Kyrgyzstan was a multicultural society with over 80 nationalities represented in the population.  It was so often quoted that it was easy to accept, remembering that the territory of the Kyrgyz Republic spanned the ancient trade route known [...]