An introduction

This is a semi-public place to dump text too flimsy to even become a blog post. I wouldn't recommend reading it unless you have a lot of time to waste. You'd be better off at my livejournal. I also have another blog, and write most of the French journal summaries at the Eurozine Review.

Why do I clutter up the internet with this stuff at all? Mainly because I'm trying to get into the habit of displaying as much as possible of what I'm doing in public. Also, Blogger is a decent interface for a notebook
Showing posts with label kyrgyzstan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kyrgyzstan. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Why /are/ there 'y's in the English name of Kyrgyzstan? Almost everywhere else the country is 'Kirgistan', 'Kirgisia', or something similarly y-free. Going through wikipedia, the only other non-cyrillic languages* to use y are Aceh, Cebuano (Philippines), Min, Turkmen, Vietnamese, and others whose names I don't recognize.
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Friday, July 9, 2010

Kyrgyz political biographies

Ran into this who's who of Kyrgyz politics looking up the new Interior Minister, but it seems generally pretty worth paying attention to.


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Kyrgyzstan: new interior minister

Kyrgyzstan has a new interior minister. Probably no bad thing, given that the accomplishments of previous acting interior minister Bolot Sher consisted of:
* pursuing Bakiyev's relatives
* Making the supremely reassuring statement that "I am in command of 80 percent of the Ministry of Interior...The other 20 percent is still waffling."



On the other hand his replacement, Kubat Baibolov, is coming straight from an oh-so-successful stint running things in Jalal-Abad


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