Jonathan Gullible News, Fall 2007 (by Ken Schoolland)

KYRGYZ

This summer my family trekked to Kyrgyzstan at the invitation of Mirsulzhan Namazaliev, m.namazaliev@gmail.com,
Co-chairman of the Liberal Youth Alliance and Aida Alymbaeva, Chair of
the Social Research Center of the American University of Central Asia, http://src.auca.kg.
Elnura Adylova, sister to one of my best former students, Erkin Adylov,
hosted us at her home during the visit and, along with Mirsulzhan,
guided us through the spectacular mountain and lake country. These two
were absolutely the greatest friends one could ever have.

Mirsulzhan kindly introduced us to the UNV’s Summer Democracy School, www.bdk.kg;
Cholpon Nogoibaeva, President of the Bishkek Liberal Club,
http://www.akipress.org/_htm/blc.htm; and the Liberal Platform of
Action and the Club of Young Liberals, www.liberal.kg.

Our quest was to seek out the long lost copies of the Kyrgyz edition of
JG. This was a project of the Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) at the
American University in Kyrgyzstan. Zarina Osmonaliev, at one time the
Sam Walton Fellow for SIFE at AUCA, helped us to resurrect these books.
Mirsulzhan and Ulukbek described a plan to use these in the villages to
promote economics education.

Mirsulzhan is one of the most energetic, intellectual, and
bold of libertarian activists I have met anywhere in the world. He was
in the midst of the demonstrations that recently brought a change in
the government and he will surely be the instrument in future reforms
throughout Central Asia.

RUSSIAN

Most people in the cities of Kyrgyzstan speak and read Russian instead
of the traditional Kyrgyz language. This seems true in most of the
former Soviet Republics of Central Asia. Thus, it is with keen interest
that we look forward to publication of the new, revised Russian
editions of JG.

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