I'm quite bummed: we will not be returning to Kazan this summer. Essentially what happened was that there were an insufficient number of student applications to financially justify the program. One reason that there were fewer applications is that… more »

Pretty well everyone speaks Russian in Bishkek, so it's a good place to have a Russian language program, but the Kyrgyz also speak... are you braced for it?... Kyrgyz! Kyrgyz is a Turkic language, related to Tatar, Uzbek, Turkmen and Turkish. I've… more »

Kyrgyzstan on the brink of energy crisis Times of Central Asia, The (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan) - February 14, 2015 Written by Maria Levina BISHKEK (TCA) — The situation in the energy system of Kyrgyzstan is difficult due to the failure of a transformer… more »

Kirgizstan is the most liberal and democratic of the Central Asian states, but a significant number of the population still has fairly negative views towards gay people. The law proposes making it illegal to present gay relationships in a positive… more »