Word: kyrgyz
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...anything, their warheads contained. While visitors will want to be aware of Lake Issyk-Kul's history, there is no evidence that the testing has caused any lasting damage to the lake's ecology, and both Russian families and avid anglers have happily vacationed there for many years. The Kyrgyz authorities also insist that the lake is perfectly clean and safe. In fact, the only booms you'll come across today will be the sounds of the area's spa industry taking...
Kuraj, as Silvia di Natale notes in her remarkable first novel of that name, is a Kyrgyz word for a kind of bush that is blown across the Central Asian steppes by winter winds, shedding seeds, leaves and branches as it goes. The English-language equivalent is tumbleweed, which certainly describes the book's tragically displaced heroine, Kaja, and in a sense the work itself. The talk of the 2000 Frankfurt Book Fair, Kuraj won a yurtful of literary prizes after it first appeared in Italy in the same year. Subsequent translations have charmed critics in France, Germany, Greece...
...rebels were Islamic extremists. Ten policemen had been killed, while the "criminals" had suffered "many more" casualties, he added. Meanwhile, Saidjakhon Zainabitdinov, a lawyer and leader of a human-rights group in Andijan, told Time that "hundreds" of civilians had been killed. Several thousand more reportedly fled for the Kyrgyz border. The rebels denied they were fighting for an Islamic state. "I personally spoke to the leaders of the uprising," says Daniil Kislov, the Moscow-based editor of fergana.ru, the one independent news source in the region. "They stress they are not radicals, and do not want an Islamic state...
...clear message to the motley collection of anachronistic despots that rule Central Asia’s ’Stans. In Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbaev has reacted with fear-fueled anger and closed the border to Kyrgyzstan, but he will find it difficult to simply block out the example of Kyrgyz people-power. Perhaps we can even hope for the winds of revolution to spread the spark of democracy to the North Korea-like state of Turkmenistan, which is ruled by the demented Turkmenbashi (“Father of Turkmen”), who has deified himself (literally) and renamed months after...
...against purportedly rigged election results; in Moscow. Akayev was hailed as a liberal reformer when he took the reins of the former Soviet republic upon its independence in 1991, but was accused in recent years of suppressing his opponents. In a sign of its dissatisfaction with Akayev, the new Kyrgyz parliament voted to strip the leader of privileges usually granted to former presidents, but put off deciding when new elections will be held...