Articles by Ben Paarmann
Born June 16, 1981, Ben is one of the founders of neweurasia. He hails from Berlin, where he and Ollie Dams, neweurasia’s mind behind the website, went to school together. A graduate of the School of Oriental and African Studies and Cambridge, he has now found his new home in The Hague, Netherlands. Check out his personal blog @ http://www.paarmann.info/weblog.
neweurasia’s Ben Paarmann posts the reflections and observations of a friend in Bishkek. “A funeral for 16 people who were killed in the protests took place earlier today. In a somewhat symbolic move, these mainly young men were all buried at the memorial site for Stalinist repression,” he writes. “Whether or not there will be a new faultline in this conflict, e.g. a ‘North-South Conflict’ remains to be seen.”
Being an isolated gas exporter can be a blessing in times of unprecedented economic chaos. Thanks to its miniscule integration with world markets and the rather good deal it is getting on its …
As somebody who unfortunately doesn’t visit Central Asia more than once per year, I have yet been immensely happy and thankful for having had the chance to visit one particular place three times in 2004, …
In light of the recent troubles in Urumqi, neweurasia is re-publishing this travel meditation by Ben Paarmann, originally published in 2004 at Thinking-East.net, neweurasia’s predecessor site. Many of the processes he saw firsthand four years ago have ratcheted up in the intervening years and contributed to tensions that sparked the recent riots.
Editor’s note: Written by Uzbekistan contributor Akmal. Yet another barcamp was recently organized in a post-Soviet region, to be exact in St Petersburg of Russia, and was entitled NevaCamp, after the famous Neva river that …
Kazakhstan’s entry for Asiavision, Asia’s pop music contest.
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