Help out an arts bureaucrat down on his luck?

[Scott Badger]

>Where is TRP reputed to have gotten the lowdown on the attempted 
>extirpation of the Kirghiz language? More to the point, does anybody know 
>of anybody qualified to judge a translation from the Kirghiz?

All finest,
David Kipen

Just happened across this a couple days ago:

http://www.ham.muohio.edu/~krafftjm/pn/pn002.pdf  (second entry on page 8 
and third on page 18)