On the Ground – Riots in Kyrgyzstan
Atlas friend, Mirsulzhan Namazaliev, executive director of the Central Asian Free Market Institute, has an article in today’s The Independent, offering a first hand view of the riots that shook Bishkek yesterday, leaving potentially 100 people dead, and caused the President to flee the city. “The centre of Bishkek witnessed extraordinary scenes as groups of [...]
Idea Night in Bishkek
The Central Asian Free Market Institute organized a really impressive and brilliantly coordinated program last night in Bishkek, “Idea Night.” (They expected 100 and got well over 150 [I counted 170].) Young Kyrgyz made a series of presentations, including a very impressive one on the evil “propiska” system of residency permits and internal passports. There [...]
