Postcard from Bishkek

Weekly postcards containing a summary of the week’s events are marked (*)

JANUARY

• Ring out the old … Ring in the New (*)
• The first amendment
• Mountain Rescue
• Tum-te-tum-te-tum-te-tumm…. tum-te-tum-te-tumm-tumm
• A bit of a “non-event”
• Service Charges and Tipping
• A problem with the bill
• When in Rome – some thoughts about hotel taxes
• Chritmas Day … again
• Quite a busy Christmas week (*)
• Education in Kyrgyzstan
• Three new Panoramas
• Adopt a Babushka – or Dedushka
• Even the tiniest little chapel has its Saint – French Proverb
• Stariy Noviy God
• Visitors from outer space – The Ultimate Tourists
• League Tables, power cuts and internet problems (*)
• The State Seal
• A difficult and nebulous concept
• To link, or not to link – revisited
• A birthday toast … in Sea-buckthorn juice
• Koopaniya na Krisheniya
• What’s in a name?
• What’s the important news story this week? (*)
• An unexpected connection
• Blue Monday – the unhappiest day of the year?
• Happy Burns’ Night, tonight
• Surprising winter scenes
• Kurgans – Ancient burials
• Balbals
• Sir Humphrey would be be proud! (*)
• Health Services
• Akhunbaev – Surgeon with a heart

FEBRUARY

• Asylbek and an unusual music clip
• Charity cooking master class
• The Tiger and the Rabbit
• Three Presidents
• A simmering pot (*)
• Compare and Contrast
• A town called Bishkek
• Winter Games
• Hats – are more than just headgear
• It’s not Ascot … but Hats for the ladies
• Internet access – a basic human right?
• Mixed Signals (*)
• A sad anniversary
• Happy Valentine’s Day!
• Babur, the “Tiger”
• Video sharing and Kyrgyzstan
• A little goes a long way!
• Tamerlane
• An inflation in tensions (*)
• Soirées in Switzerland
• A brush with History
• Ella Maillart
• A day out – Ala Archa and Alamedin
• An open letter from the IBC
• Defenders of the Fatherland Day
• Who meets who???
• Ibn Battuta – unfortunately, he never made it to Kyrgyzstan
• The sword of Damocles (*)
• What a difference a day makes …
• Kids of the internet age

MARCH

• The first day of Spring
• Al Biruni
• What can Kyrgyzstan learn from Wales?
• Shocking Pink …
• Potential shocks to the system(*)
• Flag Day
• A week of pancakes
• A birthday connundrum
• To bodly go ….
• It made me see red …
• Every star shall sing a carol
• Changeable, like the weather (*)
• Shocking news from Japan
• A new school for Bishkek
• An example of Customer care?
• Beware the Ides of March
• Promoting health
• A week of anniversaries (*)
• The Greenest city on earth
• Norus – March 21st
• Zoroastrianism
• Twitter Talk on Travel and Tourism
• Day of the People’s Revolution
• World Tuberculosis Day – the other March 24th
• What’s the fuss all about? (*)
• The demise of the BBC Russian Service
• Wikipedia week
• The Kyrgyz National Anthem
• Abdylas Maldibaev
• Changing place names

APRIL

• Dehn Durakov – April Fools’ Day
• Jokes and Japes (*)
• Paws in Need
• Seven Icons of Kyrgyzstan
• Vehicle registration plates
• Where have all the tourists gone …
• Which direction for orienteering?
• One year on …
• Marking time (*)
• Nestorius and the Church of the East
• So, who was Gabdulla Tuqay?
• Nikolay Mikhailovich PREZHEVALSK
• Karakol
• Lessons from history – The Titanic
• “Read Euler, read Euler, he is our master in all things,”
• Realpolitik (*)
• The Aigul Flower
• Guli Surh – Lola – The Red Tulip
• Another Crazy Adventure
• Classics Illustrated
• The Manas Epic storyline
• SWMBO
• Vladimir Ilyich Lenin … in Kyrgyzstan
• Happy Easter (*)
• Statisticians’ Day
• World Malaria Day
• Cemeteries
• Spend, spend, spend
• Preventing Corruption
• Ella Maillart – Riding Solo through Soviet Turkestan
• 5000
• WEDDINGS – Uilonuu Toi
• Bishkek’s fountains
• Holy Fire in Bishkek
• Fairytale Friday (*)

MAY

• Tourist season 2011: expectations and a reality
• Act of Union
• Discovering Horizons
• Crafts.kg
• The Burana Tower
• Klavdia Antipina
• Hunting with Eagles
• Oh, the humanity (*)
• The Red Cross / Red Crescent in Kyrgyzstan
• Appearances can be deceptive
• Rally round the flag, Boys.
• Old Soldiers …
• The Som
• Karakol update
• Eating out in Bishkek – The Alabama Steak House
• A milestone for Ma’am
• Not exactly an unlucky day (*)
• Nevkat – an ancient Silk Road city
• Pig Out at Obzhorka
• A meeting with the President
• Museums
• News from Healthprom
• Gdye moi klootchiy?
• The end of the world is Nigh! (*)
• Zhook!
• Ashmole, Eco and Weaver – a chain of thoughts
• Shaiolin – Chinese café
• Last bell … but for whom does it toll?
• Georgian Independence Day
• Djoormat Bokonbaev
• School’s Out … for some (*)
• A view of the Office
• Success means getting up out of your seats
• The Tobacco Dilemma

JUNE

• The Battle of Talas
• Exchange rate fluctuations
• Mannerheim – Marshall of Finland
• The long and winding road (*)
• Fishermen’s Day
• Bed and Breakfast
• Panoramas of the Naryn Guesthouse
• The Jewish community in Kyrgyzstan
• Skaska – A fairy tale valley
• Mexican Cantina
• Stalinist Repressions
• All Quiet on the Southern Front (*)
• Djety Oguz – Panorama
• Butterflies
• The Dungan Mosque – Karakol
• Sovietskoye Champanskoye
• A little mishap
• Erkindik – Bishkek’s Statue of Liberty
• Don’t Panic! (*)
• Cyclone – and Lasagne
• Dungan Cuisine
• The Popular Poplar
• A Missed Opportunity
• Ala Too Square
• Publish and be damned (*)
• Paul NAZAROFF – “Hunted through Central Asia – On the run from Lenin’s Secret Police”
• The Academy of Sciences
• My Army
• Tush Kiyiz
• Free Tourist Maps

JULY

• Happy Tax Inspectors’ Day
• Special Days (*)
• Stay out of the Sun!
• In hot water!
• Memorial Plaques
• The Ombudsman – Akyikatchy
• Laghman
• A Youtube surprise
• NOTW  (*)
• Church of the Holy Trinity – Karakol
• The epic of Kojojash, the Hunter
• Mind Your Language
• Annual tourist train Bishkek-Balykchy-Bishkek launched
• The French Connection
• St. Swithun’s Day
• Two worlds  (*)
• Buddhism in Kyrgyzstan
• Machine Gun Kelly
• Culinary Kyrgyzstan – There’s something for everyone
• Alexander the Great
• Sleeping through an earthquake
• Parking places
• It could have been worse.  (*)
• Julius Fuchik
• Sweet sixteen
• Oimo Festival
• Urkuya Salieva and the Martyrs of the Revolution Monument
• Say Goodbye to Liberty
• Cheers!
• Out with the old, in with the new (*)
• The Merzbacher Lakes

AUGUST

• Marco Polo Sheep
• Where it’s at
• Li Bo – The Immortal Poet
• Cities I’ve visited … places I’ve been … and places I haven’t
• Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.
• Phew, Wot a scorcher!  (*)
• Gottfried MERZBACHER – discoverer of an ernigma
• Some of the Blogs that I read
• Prospect Erkindik
• Bishkek Parks
• Agriculture in Kyrgyzstan
• The legends of Cholpon Ata
• Wish you were here! (*)
• The road around Lake Issyk Kul
• Who’s Who on the Som Banknotes
• A relaxing weekend
• Sulaiman Too – World Heritage Site
• The role of the Euro
• Birds
• Drowning in Democracy (*)
• Kickstart a CD: “My Kyrgyzstan”
• Bishkek Nightlife
• Face up – we’re only human
• Fingers crossed
• Genghis Khan – “God’s Punsihment for your sins!”
• Taigan – the Kyrgyz Borzoi
• Twists and turns. (*)
• Scientific Kyrgyzstan
• The Beatles and the passing of an era
• A trip to Issyk Ata
• A year of anniversaries

SEPTEMBER

• What is this place called?
• Kyrgyz Diary
• From the land of public holidays. (*)
• And the next word is … (ding!) … Googol
• And the next word is … (ding!) … Pogonologist
• Myortvoye Ozero – Kyrgyzstan’s Dead Sea
• Who writes the History Books?
• The symbolism of statues
• Arts and Crafts of Central Asia
• What game is that, again? (*)
• An unhappy anniversary
• Casinos
• Saint Irakliy – Kyrgyzstan’s own saint.
• Spectacular Akula!
• Kyrgyzstan – where the Walnuts come from!
• CSR Week – 2011
• Hollywood Blockbusters (*)
• Go East young man!
• A woman’s place
• Theatre in Kyrgyzstan
• Sambo and other Martial Arts
• City Street Traffic
• Aryk and canals
• The interrobang?! (*)
• The Blood Donor
• The Safest place on Earth?
• Linking Cultures
• World Rabies Day
• Maxim’s Habits
• Bridging Cultures

NOVEMBER

also

• the page: Panoramas
• the photogalleries:
• •  Skazka – a fairy tale valley
  • Issyk Kul 2011 
  • Issyk Ata
  • Myortvoye Ozero – Kyrgyzstan’s Dead Sea
  • Naryn – September 2011 
  • Chon Kemin – November 2011
  • Burana Tower – November 2011
  • Beshbarmak
  • The State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet named after Abdylas Maldabaev
  • Church of the Resurrection – Bishkek’s Russian Orthodox Cathedral
  • Panoramic Images
  • Manzhyly Ata

 

 

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