Posts by Chris Rickleton
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Five issues that matter to Kyrgyzstan’s Girl-Activists
Kyrgyzstan’s devochki-activistki (girl-activists) are girls aged between 13 and 17-years-old fighting for equality, justice and diversity in a challenging environment for girls’ rights.
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Kyrgyzstan’s Soviet-era poster child gets an iPad
When he wasn’t depicting Kyrgyzstan’s awesome nature, Semyon Chuikov, an Honoured Artist of the USSR born in what is now the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek in 1902, was always careful to make sure his artwork didn’t stray beyond the strict, socialist parameters provided for by Soviet artistic policy.
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Kyrgyzstan’s schools mirror and breed social inequality
As her six-year-old daughter prepares to start school this September, Alina Bilyaletdinova says that sifting through online chat forums and scouring media reports of disgraced school principals has become “a full-time job.”
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