Kyrgyzstan’s technical government , which replaced its interim predecessor, has set goals for its first 100 days.
“First of all, we need to think about public safety,” said Cholpon Nogoibayeva, head of the anti-crisis group that helped develop the 100-day plan. Read more »
A group of Russian experts paid a working trip to the Osh City. Main purpose of the visit was to assess the extent of destruction. During the trip, experts met with local authorities and ordinary residents. According to latest figures, 2.500 buildings, including 1.900 residential ones, were destroyed during the clashes. Read more »
From July 23 to 25, 2010, an exhibition will be opened, called “Asian Reunion on Silk Road, in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
According to the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), the exhibition will present paintings of Japanese artist Izumi Sakamoto and Kyrgyz artist Rahat Itikeev. Read more »
Б’Art Center presents a Japanese artist for the first time and has honor to invites you to the exhibition of Japanese Artist ”Izumi Sakamoto” in Б’Art on Friday, July 23rd.
Japan reaches historic age this year. There was a big event that the capital moved to Japan just before 1300. The ancient traditions and cultures of Japan have been preserved until today and communicate to the world our wish to hand down those traditions and cultures to future generations. Japan got also many cultures via Kyrgyzstan through Silk Road at that time. Read more »
In Bishkek, from July 12 to July 15 in the building of the October district administration of Bishkek city a seminar will be held, called “Theory and practice of regulatory impact analysis techniques with state regulation of business.”
Analyst K. Izmailov would direct the seminar. The seminar is held under the USAID project to improve the business environment. The aim of the seminar is to introduce a more detailed explanation of the technique, called Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA), through which the participants would improve their skills to provide quality training regulations and evaluation of incoming documents.
It is expected that after completing the training, members of the staff of the Bishkek city council, mayor of Bishkek, and structural units of the City Hall will apply in their work the methods of RIA that will reduce the risk of departmental regulations and private lobbying decisions. The technique allows to evaluate both in monetary and qualitative terms, the future or a current effect from the impact of normative legal act, as well as to assess in advance what benefits will receive and what expenses incurred by business, government and society.
On the evening of the 7th July, exactly 3 months after the terrible events in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Open Central Asia Magazine hosted a splendid evening to raise money for its own offices that had been looted during the rioting. Some 50 guests enjoyed a fine Central Asian menu at the Pasha restaurant in Camberwell, as well as entertainment from Central Asian Musicians.
The events of 6th and 7th of April in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, were nothing short of extraordinary. They brought with them great sadness, renewed hope, tragic destruction, victorious triumph and, above all, confusion about what to do next. Ian Claytor, General Director of the Celestial Mountains Companies in Kyrgyzstan, has lived in Bishkek for nearly 15 years, as a British expat. He has already seen one change of government that arose as a result of 2005’s Tulip Revolution when President Bakiev came to power as Kyrgystan’s second President, unseating President Akayev. Read more »
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A public campaign is running in Bishkek and Osh, under the slogan “I want peace in Kyrgyzstan”, which is actively spreading the message of peace and harmony, and promoting the peaceful settlement of the situation. Mirsulzhan Namazaliev, one of the organizers of the campaign, reported.
As he announced today on June 23, the initiators and the driving force behind the campaign are active Internet users and a number of civic activists. During this campaign, residents of these cities will distribute various information leaflets, stickers and T-shirts with slogans calling for peace and harmony of citizens of Kyrgyzstan. The participants of the campaign sat up a map with data on the humanitarian aid provided to the residents of the south of Kyrgyzstan.
Today, on June 10, 2010, at the “Ak Keme” Hotel Media Policy Institute in conjunction with the Representation of Internews Network in Kyrgyzstan and International Media Support (Denmark) will hold the International Forum “Kyrgyz Media 2010: Opportunities, Expectations, and Challenges”.
According to the Institute of Media Policy, the forum will be condemned by the problems concerning the decision to nationalize the “Channel Five” and channel “Pyramid”, problems in covering the conflict, the transformation of National Tele-Radio Company into a public channel and etc, as well as ways to solve them.
The event will be attended by representatives of the Provisional Government, non-profit media, human rights and international organizations.
