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The sponsor of a campaign not to allow an international investigation into Osh’s June tragedy, and a possible instigator of the events themselves, the city’s mayor Melis Myrzakmatov is undoubtedly a bad egg. This month Winston Olsen reviews his plans to develop Kyrgyzstan’s ruined southern capital.
This week the Spektator will be donning its drinking trousers and heading down to the intersection of streets Manas and Frunze for the opening of Pinta pub. Recalling a meeting our magazine had with the Pinta leadership back in March, Chris Rickleton provides the lowdown on Bishkek’s “better beer people.”
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Whispers and rumours from within the corridors of power as provided by our anonymous interim government ‘contact’.
This week the Spektator‘s most intrepid idler, leopard-stalking Patrick Barrow, shares his memory of the White House wreckage on the morning of April 8. A jubilant and curious crowd pressed its way through an open door to the White House. The front gates had been smashed through by burnt out trucks, the grounds were littered [...]
When a revolution unseats a government, the economic recovery is seldom speedy. To begin with, there are the days of business lost to the turbulence itself, the potential cost of repairing damaged shop fronts, replacing shattered windows. Then, as customers gingerly trickle back, the creditors arrive, asking for their money. But there is nothing with [...]
This week the Spektator has, in its various guises, been hiding behind the couch, shielding its eyes from images of grotesque violence, tyring to find out who Bolot Sherniyazov is and walking around the wreckage of the Jorgorku Kenesh parliament building in a state of awestruck confusion.