2011 May 13 -Postcard from Bishkek

Archive: May 13th, 2011

A milestone for Ma’am

The little three year old girl in the photograph which appeared on the front of Time Magazine in April, 1929, passed a milestone yesterday. She was Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor, who on 6th February, 1952, succeeded her father, (King George VI), to the throne as Queen Elizabeth the Second of the United Kingdom of Great […]

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Welcome to ianbek.kg – a Postcard from Bishkek

It's a personal website - reminiscences, comments and observations from an ex-pat living and working in Bishkek, the capital of the Kyrgyzstan, (or the Kyrgyz Republic, to give it its proper name).