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 25, 2007
Agym’s new owner & Eshimkanov’s dealings
Aynagul Saparbek kyzy, Chief Editor of the powerful opposition daily “Agym” gave a short interview on the Bishkek Press Club website on the new owner of the newspaper, which was recently sold by opposition Parliament member Melis Eshimkanov. Saparbek assured concerned readers that the new owner is a Kyrgyz citizen and not someone with any [...]
May 4, 2007
Kyrgyzstan’s ongoing info war
In an open Kabar interview, online readers posted questions for Nurlana Akhmetova, the Dean of Journalism at Kyrgyz National University. She shared some dismal commentary translated the best I can below. In the ongoing information war, “lies and slander” in print and on the air all come to naught:
All of this doesn’t bring credibility to [...]
