Postcard from Bishkek

Friday started quietly.  Although the sun was shining when I went down to the office at six, it wasn’t particularly warm.  That didn’t put the crowds off, however, as they gathered early in the morning, creating traffic chaos.  On the way back from the hotel after a meeting I discovered one road clogged with cars [...]

“Holy Fire!” It sounds like something Robin might say to Batman in the 1960’s TV programme.  In fact it’s more serious than that, to the Orthodox faithful.  Indeed, to them it represents a miracle.