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• Holiday with tears on eyes

  
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  May 9, 1945, the courageous Red Army won a long-awaited victory after five hard years of war with Nazi Germany. And every year after the great victory each country of the post-Soviet space is celebrating this holiday. Even a few weeks before this important date, Kyrgyz people congratulate veterans, wearing St. ...
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• Tears of the Sun in Dushanbe

  
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  On May 7 th , 2013, Dushanbe museum of musical instruments after Gurminj Zavkibekov has hosted an epic concert by Tashkent based music band Tears of the Sun . Local audience has not heard such quality rock-funk for a long-long time. Please see bellow the photo reportage from the concert. It is also important to ...
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• Where is the Chinese Shostakovich?

  
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  Op-Ed Commentary: Chris Devonshire-Ellis May 9 – On May 2nd, St. Petersburg’s Mariinsky opened its plush new concert hall, bringing the total number of venues in this esteemed international cultural center for the musical arts to three. Valery Gergiev, the
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• Excellence in Hawaiian Language, Culture and History (2013 KPP Awards)

  
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  The 2013 Ka Palapala Poʻokela Awards gala is fast approaching (Friday, May 10), and to generate excitement for the event as well as educate the public on the nominees, we will continue our tradition of doing a countdown of posts, highlighting the …
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• 20 years of the Constitution of the Kyrgyz Republic

  
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  This year Kyrgyzstan celebrates the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution from May 5, 1993. In 2010, however, it has been cardinally re-released, but today I just want to write about the history of the creation and adoption of the first Constitution of the independent Kyrgyz Republic. The ...
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• Reading

  
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  (This post is a week overdue.) Last week I finished reading the second book in the Hellhole trilogy and discovered that, apparently, the third book isn’t out yet. Darn. So I started something I have been wanting to read for at least three-quarters of my life, the quintessential Really Long Book, War and Peace. I ...
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• Problem of migration through the animation

  
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  To convey the thoughts and to reveal a problem through animated films is not an easy thing. But for the members of the Creative Group “705″, animation is not known by hearsay. Therefore, to portray the problem of labor migration on paper using just only a pencil is a real and implementable task for them. The ...
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• Street art rebels

  
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  Burned roof of “Ilkhom” theater these days holds the Public Art exhibition «Refresh». The group of young artists worked on it under the guidance of renowned master Gabriel Specter , who included in the Top 50 of world Public Art artists ( by Complex Art+Design version). For Uzbekistan this genre of art is ...
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• A few words about contemporary Uzbek photography. Part I

  
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  On 25 April I gave a talk on contemporary Uzbek photography in front of the most challenging audience imaginable, a few dozens of modern Uzbek photographers who gathered in the House of Photography in Tashkent courtesy of the Neformat Photo Club. The formal pretext for the presentation was a talk about the 50 th ...
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• Social change VS. music of Tajikistan. Part II: Where is the way out?

  
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  In this article I would like to talk about the way the disappearing traditional music genres may survive  in the situation of economic stagnation, social insecurity and absence of politics’ interest. I have started the discussion in one of me previous articles “Social change VS. music of Tajikistan. Part I: The ...
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• ROCKing Uzbek women

  
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  While Uzbekistan secretly prohibit rock’nroll, and the men with guitars are rolling back into the underground, Uzbek women takes rock music in their cute hands! And this women is very resolute, judging by the charming photo shoot, that we posted for you below. At the minimum, they seems ready to make a lot of ...
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• Central Asian literature: what’s on the cards?

  
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  ‘Come to the Russian stand, I’ll meet you there’, says Hamid Ismailov, a writer from Uzbekistan, the head of the BBC Central Asian and Caucasus Service, a quiet and soft-spoken gentleman in a black velveteen jacket. It’s the last day of the London Book Fair 2013, and I’m visiting the huge Earls Court ...
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• “Jazz_Bishkek_Spring” – 2013

  
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  Last weekend in Bishkek city were held the series of important cultural events. One of the highlights was the International Festival of Jazz music “Jazz_Bishkek_Spring” – 2013. In order to help you to plunge yourself into the atmosphere of lively and never growing old music, I offer you a photo report from the ...
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• Let the Jazz be!

  
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  VIII International Festival “Jazz_Bishkek_Spring” – 2013 started on April, 19 in the capital of Kyrgyzstan. The organizer of the Festival, The Public Fund “Central Asia – Art Management” (PF CAAM), gave the fans of jazz music three days of the unique atmosphere of a live performance.  April, 19, 20 and ...
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• Instrumental Rap in Dushanbe

  
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  An instrumental rap concert took place in Dushanbe, in Manhattan club on April the 12 th .  Usually I do not trust any rap event organized in Dushanbe for it is very often, and even more then often rap concerts are of low organizational level with bad sound.  But the list of the organizers on the concert poster that ...
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• Don’t Do That!

  
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  Peter of Male Pattern Boldness talks about something dear to my heart, treadle sewing machines, and the tragic things that happen to them when their owners don’t appreciate them for what they are. People, PLEASE, don’t destroy your treadle sewing machines to make desks and plant stands and other purely decorative ...
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• Why do footprints not stay?

  
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  Mono performance called “Why do footprints not stay?” based on the works of Chinghiz Aitmatov, was held last weekend in the Russian Drama Theater in Bishkek. Theater actress Galina Ketova brought to life the feelings and thoughts of heroes of “Jamila”, “The First Teacher” and “Mother Earth”. Chinghiz ...
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