Ulugbek Babakulov
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Uzbek prostitutes are flocking to Kyrgyzstan, where better pay and more liberal attitudes make for an easier life.
The Kyrgyz truck drivers and market traders who have benefited from trade routes to their eastern neighbour are less enthusiastic about the growing Chinese role in the local economy.
The conservative Uzbek minority is showing its support for anti-government demonstrations sweeping the country.
Islamists in Kyrgyzstan say they have nothing in common with the men behind the New York and Washington terror attacks.
There are fears that border guard harassment of travellers and traders crossing the Kyrgyz-Uzbek frontier could provoke inter-ethnic violence.
Protests are growing in Kyrgyzstan at the arrest of a parliamentarian who criticised the president over territorial concessions to neighboring countries.
The Kyrgyz authorities are turning a blind eye to the increasing number of street children in the southern city of Jalalabad.
The Khizb-ut-Takhrir group is gaining sympathy among many southern Kyrgyz tired of poverty and leery of the new US military presence.
Farmers say they face ruin as packs of wolves decimate their livestock.