"Our village is called Paris, and in Paris there's an Eiffel Tower,"said Nurzhan Kubatbekov, Kyrgyzstan's answer to Gustave Eiffel, who paid $14,000 for the replica. Although 20 times smaller than ...
Surging trade with Russia and China means that the small Kyrgyzstan settlement of 100 inhabitants is getting busier and busier. A popular stopover for truck drivers, it has been named Paris by ...
To reach Paris’ Eiffel Tower, Nurzhigit Abrahman had to zigzag ... high monument in a mountain hamlet in Kyrgyzstan. The settlement is one of the few spots of civilisation on the only road ...