Russian translation of Fredrick Starr's awesome article:
http://ru.trend.az/news/politics/1637454.html

I'm having trouble with what I perceive as a bias in the social sciences among Central Asian academics and historians.  Not the first time...
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/08/science/08tier.html

Three images terrify:

1. A person falling away from kindness into hell's void.
2. A parent burying their child, then living with a void.
3. A sterile orphanage with babies crying into the void.

Эл аралык коомунда кыргыздардын милдети барбы?  Бар болсо, эмне деп эсептейсиздер?

"Кичине иште ишенимдүү болгон киши, чоң иште да ишенимдүү болот.  Кичини иште ишенимдүү болбогон киши, чоң иште да ишенимдүү боло албайт." (Иса)

A tribute to Mother Teresa

happiness:

She didn't have Shakira's moves or Rihanna's sex appeal.
She wasn't rich, powerful, or positioned.
But she shook, and she glowed
invested heavily in earth's depleting resources.

"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier."
Mother Teresa