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Traffic jam in Osh streets, south Kyrgyzstan.

In Osh sreet, south Kyrgyzstan, during an electricity cut a poor homeless family is burning paperboard to warm themselves. Because of energy crisis, electric cuts occurs very regularly all over the country.

A drug addict just after he injected himself an heroin dose. In Kyrgyzstan, an heroin dose costs less than 2Û.

A man is drinking a glass of vodka. He works at the Lev Tolsto• street labour market (nicknamed the unemployment people street). In winter he lives underground close to the hot water pipelines that warms this space. Sometime police takes them and…

A young child, from a migrant family, plays in the snow where he lives in an old disused brick factory in a Bishkek suburb.

Motivated by the energy crisis and coal rising prize, some men are trying to repair an old in ruins coal factory dating from the soviet time.

Lev Tolstoy street in Bishkek, nicknamed 'the street of the unemployed' since poor day labourers from the provinces, such as Kurman (right), come here to work for around 5 Euros a day. Today he hasn't found any work and says he would be ready to work…

Coal Mine in Min Kush. During the 60s and 70s, Min Kush was a prosperous city living from Uranium mining. As a symbol of the whole country, it is now a deserted very poor village of 2500 people (before 20 000) totally polluted by Uranium wastes.…

The opponent and human right activist Maxim Kuleshov is violently arrested after he tried to protest in front of the white house (presidential house) asking president Bakiev to resign. Later he was placed to Bishkek psychiatric facility, which…

During a demonstration against president Bakiev in Bishkek on the 27th of March. On this day demonstrations occurred all over the country.