Erica Marat

Just like many lectures on politics, this one also had a very loud title: "National Ideology and State-building in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan". Presented by Erica Marat, it was on the level of introductory politics course- nothing new. Her main points:

-ideologies in KG and TJ are soviet legacy


-no distinction between citizen and ethnicity

Analysis was rather basic. She definitely writes better than speaks (in terms of lecturing).

It was more interesting to see very old struggle between Soviet vs. West battle on the floor, when Nur Omarov, self-proclaimed Kyrgyz political scientist basically criticized every aspect of the her presentation and the whole lecture turned into a talk show.

There she is, in case you were wondering how she looks:

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