Kyrgyz Republic, and Uzbekistan. IREX advising centers facilitate international exchange throughout the world, hold international conferences, seminars, and professional training, as well as provides students and scholars with current information on educational testing. While youngsters in the west scour the Internet, rummage through newspapers and seek the advice of guidance counselors, for Uzbekistan's youth it is every man for himself. Anyone who thinks the state will protect them in their pursuit of integrity and a job well done is doomed to disappointment and ruin. Careers are chosen these days not on the basis of professional ambition or denying oneself for the greater good of socialist humanity, but increasingly on the extra-curricular benefits accruable to an individual or his clan.
Good jobs are expensive to come by.
The Kyrgyz Republic is planning to toughen its penalties for the transportation and distribution of drugs in Kyrgyzstan. Initiators of these additions to local legislation are calling for the introduction of the death penalty for drug traffickers. Kyrgyzstan has been flooded with drugs from Tajikistan as they enter the country from Afghanistan. The drug channel has grown so much that it could not only turn all Kyrgyzstanis into drug addicts, but also addict millions of people throughout the world. The Analyst All rights reserved.