Archive: January, 2011

Mountain Rescue

One of the newswires that I subscribe to had a link today to an interesting article in the Guardian newspaper about the growing pressure of work on mountain rescue services in the UK. It caught my attention because Kyrgyzstan is a mountainous country and I wondered about the situation here in Kyrgyzstan.  In fact I [...]

Monday, January 3rd, 2011 at 17:00 1 comments. »

The first amendment

The first amendment to the American Constitution was introduced along with other measures which formed what is known as “the Bill of Rights” in order to provide guarantees for civil liberties which were thought to be inadequately provided for in the original document.  This particular amendment was directed towards the freedom of religion, the freedom [...]

Sunday, January 2nd, 2011 at 16:56 0 comments. »

Ring out the Old … Ring in the New

So, 2011 has finally arrived … and, as usual, I slept through it – well almost.  Having fallen asleep, as usual, watching the TV, I was woken up at 12:15, (or should that be 24:15?, or even 00:15?), by the fireworks.  Apparently, the ban on fireworks is only valid in Osh.  Here in Bishkek the [...]

Saturday, January 1st, 2011 at 10:02 3 comments. »