Posted yesterday at Jamestown, an intriguing response from US Embassy officials to three Eurasia Daily monitor articles about recent Kyrgyz opposition to the Ganci base in Bishkek. If you’re reading this site, chances are you’ve read the articles concerned (here, here and here) by Jamestown analysts John C.K. Daly, Erica Marat, and Roger McDermott. In [...]
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May 27, 2007
Mediaspin | Ganci airbase news roundup
Getting through the past week’s news surrounding Bishkek’s American ‘Manas-Ganci’ airbase has been a journey through an echo-chamber of Russian-influenced rumor and sloppy contradiction. Plenty of paranoid logic (Bely parohod, Interfax, 24.kg repeating Russian newswires) and some sound reasoning (mostly on the Bishkek Press Club site, and reprints of the same commentators). What I’m interested [...]
March 29, 2007
New Cartoon series on Central Asia
From the new Cartoon series starting at the Times of Central Asia. The cartoons are by Tom Wellings and myself – Please contact me if you’re interested in republishing any of them.
See below for Felix Kulov in a teacup or just catch the rest here
