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 [...]
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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 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 [...]
May 22, 2007
Yankee Ketsin! | Bishkek’s Airbases
Both of Kyrgyzstan’s airbases got plenty of newsplay today, neatly coinciding with a visit today from the CSTO Secretary General Nikolai Bordyuzha. Most of the news agencies make much of the ‘working visit,’ which follows Kyrgyz Parliament Speaker Marat Sultanov’s mission to Moscow last week where he plead for more CSTO forces to help guard [...]
