Thinking about the economical situation in Central Asia and trying to find out what are the differences and similarities between Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan I’ve come to such the staff as follows.

While searching the information on Kyrgyzstan’s country profile through websites I’ve come across to a catchy description of Kyrgyzstan that said: “No whistles and bells, just a friendly face and some mighty big mountains.”

The saying appeared for me truly appealing to Kyrgyzstan people who for the most time are calm and don’t feel like talking much and take mountains as something kin to themselves. At the soviet time Kyrgyzstan was always associated as a country that would never face any kind of break through or anything like that, which happened on March 24, 2005.

Even the Kyrgyz people in the northern part where I come from I believe didn’t expect any “revolution” would break up in the country. I was totally surprised that Kyrgyz people would become so active. I believed that the country had been slowly decaying and nothing would stop it from it. But it appeared that the southerners had some power to break up the event and the time actually started for Kyrgyzstan to spin faster.

Trying to understand why actually the third “revolution” erupted in the former soviet republics, one can definitely come to the idea that people were not satisfied with life they had. Thus the main problem is about economic situation of the countries. At the soviet time Kyrgyzstan’s economy was tightly connected with Rissia’s and whatever enterprises and businesses the country had they were dependant on that ties.

According to “CIA World Factbook,” Kyrgyzstan is “poor, mountainous country with predominantly agricultural economy. It is true that the country is landlocked and about 95% of mountains hold the spots of valleys in Chui, Talas and Osh regions. After the Soviet Union collapsed the industrial activity fell down simultaneously and naturally the agricultural sector was left to deal with since it was the only sector that would somehow help the citizens to survive.

Now after the political incentives have started to strive for more productive economy it is still not so much clear what exact steps one need to undertake for making a break through in the economical side. Shall we continue to develop agricultural sector or shift to the digging out for natural deposits, which are believed to be abundant in the country land.

According to CIA World Book Kyrgyzstan exports such commodities as gold, mercury, uranium, natural gas and hydropower.

On the other hand the country with more agricultural economy realities has routs of producing cotton, wool and meat. While the population under poverty line is estimated for 40% it have become puzzled at the economical situation of the country. “Tourism might help. Mountaineers looking for a new and exotic location could bring a lot of money to the country,” says Jonathan Barth, an American photograph, who visited Kyrgyzstan from 1995-1997.

I remember talks of Kyrgyz people at ex-president’s time that Kyrgyzstan second Switzerland in terms of nature and the mountainous environment that we have. But the question is how to make the work done or even which way to start? Jipara Ibrayeva, graduate student at KIMEP and citizen of Kyrgyzstan says: “The country should launch its economic priorities in a few directions, that is electric power, gold mining sector and tourism.”