A not-young Kyrgyz came up to me on Chui prospect in Bishkek and asked: “Brother, how do I get to the Alamedin market?” I didn’t know yet how to get to the market, but I did already know that in Bishkek – I’m a brother. At this time, in my Moscow, a group of young thugs was in the process of killing its Kyrgyz counterpart. (There’s a peculiarity of Russian nationalism for you: a Chechen goes and kills a Russian, so Russians go and kill a Kyrgyz in revenge). There are very many youth on the streets of Bishkek. And they gather in the center of the city often for lack of anything else to do. According to official statistics, for October of the year 2010 the unemployed in the Republic reached nearly 300,000. For a country with a population of 5 million, that is a very large number.