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 ‘culture’
June 13, 2007
Got Kymyz? | Drinking in Central Asia
Without question the world’s finest alcoholic dairy product, kymyz is a toothsome brew of fermented mare’s milk, and the intrepid inebriate who finds himself in these far reaches would be a fool not to embark on a kymyz-tasting tour.
A colorful, practical guide to drinking Kymyz in Kyrgyzstan. (Don’t be alarmed by its source : The [...]
May 19, 2007
Kyrgyz regionalism – threat or hype?
CXW over at neweurasia reports on signs of the potential crisis evolving out of Kyrgyzstan’s urban-rural, rich-poor and North-South divides, which have been politicized around the April standoff by both opposition and government media. Particularly with recent village clashes reported in the North and South pitting Kyrgyz against each other, analysts fear a further escalation [...]
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
March 26, 2007
Kyrgyzstan weighs polygamy
Cartoon by Tom Wellings.
RFE/RL March 26, 2007
Despite the strongest bid to legalize polygamy yet, the practise was rejected by the Kyrgyz Parliament on March 26, 2007. “Article153 has been preserved. Those [men] who have two or more families will be brought to justice by the Kyrgyz government just as before,” said Murat Kaipov, Kyrgyz Justice [...]
