Much has been said and published about the Kumtor gold mining company for 16 years of its operation in Kyrgyzstan. It is ecologists and NGOs that are especially anxious. They curse the Kumtor management for the abuse of Petrova lake situated in the Tian Shan range very close to the mine. The lake is able to breach its banks any time and flood the area killing hundreds of people, and the mining company is said to encourage melting glaciers. If it happens, who will be responsible for the catastrophe?

ran high in Kyrgyzstan in mid-June. Its participants are besetting the Ministry of Home Affairs and threatening to organize a new revolution. The police are not going to stop a criminal case on gems smuggling.

"Mothers' tears" - this is the name of the monument opened by president Roza Otunbayeva in Osh on 10 of June when Kyrgyzstan commemorated the victims of the ethnic conflict that had taken place a year ago.

To be on time to participate in the event we, a group of journalists, are rushing in a car from the airport. We see ruins of destroyed cafes and burnt down shops both in the city centre and in the outskirts. For some reasons nobody clears up the debris. A very depressive scene! Militiamen are on every step. But where are the local inhabitants? Later we would find out that they were sitting at home or went to their relatives in the countryside for fear of possible unrest. 

Feltmaking does not seem to be distaff. It is not easy to get this unique cloth from wool. But in Bokonbayevo village in Ton district of Issyk-Kul oblast it is women who practise this ancient craft. Kumtor Operating Company helps them in this uneasy business.

A ghetto of illegal immigrants from Uzbekistan and Tajikistan was discovered by the Russian militiamen in the western part of Moscow. A real small town was situated in the woods of Vereyskaya Street. To get in one needed to bull a way through a hole covered with a hatch and turf.

The jubilee exhibition titled "The Kyrgyz National clothes of 19-20 centuries" has opened in State Historic Museum in Bishkek.

The event coincides with the 85th anniversary of the museum.

According to Akylai Sharipova, the main custodian of the museum, there are about 120,000 exhibits that have being collected since 1926. "Scientists such as S.Abramzon, K.Antipina, R.Shamaliyev worked on the collection. The Kyrgyz clothes reflect social and marital status as well as age. And, of course, it is fit to a nomadic way of life", said A. Sharipova.

Men's, women's and children's clothes are presented in the exhibition. Everything is made of leather, felt, animal skin. It is also possible to see headwear and boots. Traditional national costumes are decorated with jewellery of the local craftsmen. There are a lot of pictures and photographs of those times.

Their leader Iskhak Masaliyev suggests to follow the example of the Chinese comrades

"The Party of Communists is headily losing its voters", said its leader Iskhak Masaliyev at the party's recent congress. The communists' failure during the parliamentary election in 2010 is just a case in point.

There are a lot of versions and accusations just before the first anniversary of the tragic events in the south of Kyrgyzstan. Numerous reports and commissions name different people and demand that they resign. A well-known human rights activist Toktaym Umetaliyeva shares her opinion after the recent trip to the south.

The Kyrgyz thief in law couldn't even dream of being a matter of concern of the president of the most powerful country - the USA.

This was the Statement of UK's Ambassador to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan David Moran.

"Kyrgyzstan is important to Britain", he said. "Britain has a strong interest in a stable, secure, peaceful and progressive Kyrgyzstan, not just for the sake of all people living inside the country, but also for the rest of the region. The embassy will focus on political and developmental co-operation".