Back in Berlin

Well, this is quite sad news. I am back in Berlin, the adventure is over, reality and routine will have me back sooner than thought. The last days in Kyrgyzstan were great, the tour to remote Batken difficult but fruitful and the time in Bishkek a happy-sad farewell. New-won friends, an interesting and comfortable place to live - all that doesn't make it too easy to return to Europe, with its routines and completely different challenges.

What I am going to put up here in the near future is the following:

-> two articles that will appear on openDemocracy (one on Kyrgyzstan's political situation, one on China's West)
-> a report on what happened in Batken oblast
-> perhaps some concluding remarks