Who makes the Times
Bolotbek Daniyarov, managing editor since 2001, joined the Times from IradOne in 1996 as its first courts reporter. He edited the auction reports of 2006–07 and the special edition of 26 February 2007.
The Times has twenty staff, eleven of whom are trustees of the Times Staff Trust. Everyone below can be reached at the office on Printers’ Lane.
Aigerim SadyrbaevaInvestigations editor. With the paper since 2004; co-wrote “What the Cabinet Promised Away”.
Erlan SagynovSenior correspondent: culture, history and the archives. One of the reporters who left IradOne to found the paper in 1996. Every 24 May he writes about the siege of Talas, in which his father, the folklorist Sagyn Jusupbekov, was killed; the university press is reissuing his father’s Oral Folk Art of Irad.
Temirlan OsmonovEconomics and money. Grain, antimony, Toktogul and the som.
Saltanat KurmanbekovaCourts and the Mejlis.
Nurgul AsanbekovaEnvironment, media and the cities.
Askat JumabaevSport, and the money in it.
Darya LysenkoNurzhan correspondent.
Kubanych AbdyrakhmanovThe valleys and the tribal regions; files by phone from Kara-Suu.
Gulmira ToktosunovaChief sub-editor and corrections.
Vasily KimHead printer, since 1997.
Dinara SydykovaFounding editor, 1996–2001. Writes a monthly column.
