| 1 | Thousands of workers travel across the border from Kyrgyzstan to Kazakhstan to work on tobacco farms. | |
| 2 | Much of Afghanistan' s opiates are trucked and flown in to the south of Kyrgyzstan. | |
| 3 | They were not gangsters. They were rich kids who knew they could do what they liked here in Kyrgyzstan. | |
| 4 | Democracy did not get Kyrgyzstan into this mess. It might just help the country escape it. | |
| 5 | Stuck between mountain ranges and great powers, Kyrgyzstan is a nation defined and dominated by what surrounds it. |