Greetings from Bishkek. I was searching through my old photos, trying to find something to put here, and discovered this photo. It is perhaps about as bad a photo composition as you could imagine, don't you think? Everything seems to be wrong (except maybe the lighting). Funny, I guess.
Also, this photo is good because it shows two of the Kyrgyz guys I work with - Bakyt (pronounced Bucket by us, but I am sure it is a little different) who is a registration expert (head of the department) and Melis, who is a lawyer. He is the tall one. Melis was a popular name during the Soviet times - it stands for Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin. I wonder if he has thought of changing it?
