The Big Hillbilly Bluegrass Band will play at Bishkek’s main ex-pat bar on Tuesday. Their regular gig is at Madam’s Organ in D.C., which besides being know as one of the best bars in town was also Euan Blair’s favorite hang out while an intern in Congress. Clearly this means the Big Hillbilly’s have some [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Bishkek’
June 3, 2007
Kyrgyzstan to join Russia — not!
Kyrgyz opposition members from the United Front for a Worthy Future for Kyrgyzstan were collecting signatures yesterday for a referendum on Kyrgyzstan’s proposed confederation with Russia. Former Prime Minister Feliks Kulov has proposed inviting Russia to establish a single economic zone, currency, budget and even a joint-Parliament with Kyrgyzstan. If the United Front gathers the [...]
June 3, 2007
Bishkek’s Ganci base | Yankee ketsin!
50 peaceful protestors rallied outside the US embassy in Bishkek for an hour today in the first public action from the “Movement for the Withdrawal of American military bases from Kyrgyzstan.” Spurred on by outspoken Parliament deputies, the movement is based on America’s poor (bureaucratic?) handling of the killing of a driver at the [...]
May 28, 2007
Ivanova on US double standards
Last week, I posted this quote by Maria Ivanova, the widow of Aleksandr Ivanov, a Kyrgyz citizen truck-driver who was shot and killed by a US soldier at a Ganci airbase checkpoint on December 6, 2006.
America shouts about their democratic rights which it imposes everywhere, but today we have seen that this has not been [...]
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 [...]
