My country part 2

Hi everyone welcome back to my podcast part 2. Today I am going to tell you about economy of Kyrgyzstan. How good it was during USSR and what we got today. Do you know that economy of Kyrgyz SSR was in leading positions of Union? Do you know that there were two revolutions in 2005 and 2010 years? Stay with me and you going to know more about Kyrgyz republic.

My country has long history beginning from 200 years b.c. in 2200 years there were changed a lot of regimes basically before USSR our country was typical nomad country wealth counted in numbers of livestock such as sheep, horses and cattle. Everything changed after soviet regime come. Russians invested a lot of money in our economy built a lot of factories, roads and other infrastructure, so it brings up 1^st place in Union by producing meat and wool. There is big river called Naryn it is very important in the generation of hydroelectricity. On this river were built 7 hydroelectric stations all of them in period of USSR which consumes by country and rest of it exporting to Uzbekistan and Kazahstan. In soviet period there were no homeless people, 90 % of population were middleclass.

What we have today? After collapse of USSR in 1991 Kyrgyz SSR become “independent” and in 1993 we got own currency called SOM, 1 USD was equal to 8 soms, now 1 USD = 56 soms. In 1995 we got own constitution, in 1998 we entered to WTO (Word Trade Organization). Since then every year GDP is falling down, today we are in 146 place from 193 countries in the ranks of Niger, Cosovo, West Bank and Gaza. We’ve got two revolutions in 2005 when the president Akaev was overthrown and in 2010 when the president Bakiev was overthrown these actions greatly undermined economy. Average salary is 200 – 300 USD in a month! It is not a life it is survival… Today everything corrupted system will not work without bribery.

This was sad part of my country but we have very friendly people and I am going to tell about it in the next part of my podcast. Thanks for listening everyone, and stay tuned for my next podcast bye-bye.