This post is part of the crossblog survey “2007 in retrospect”. You can also vote on the most important event of 2007 in our online poll. 
Exactly one year ago, on 21 December 2006, the world learnt about the death of Saparmurat Niyazov. Long forgotten by the international media and isolated on the international stage […]

Editor’s note: This is a translation of Abdulgamid’s post, which is part of the neweurasia cross-blog survey about humour in Central Asia. In keeping with the subject, the article contains words and phrases that some people may find crude and/or offensive.
Epigraph
“There’s already a sense of wonder in the growing itchiness…”
Sasha Blo in Generation P, […]