The new parliament is dominated by figures loyal to the president. The president of Kyrgyzstan started out election day on an uplifting note. The vote to pick a new parliament, …
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Vodka tycoon Sharshenbek Abdykerimov wanted his election campaign to stand out. There were, after all, 12 rivals vying for the same single-mandate seat in Naryn, an unglamorous town perched high …
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Mailuu-Suu powered the Soviet Union’s nuclear program. But climate change and its nuclear legacy are putting the town in Kyrgyzstan at risk. Anna Travkina remembers the day the water turned …
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Relations between the U.S. and Kyrgyzstan have been in a slump since the small country closed the U.S. air base at Manas in 2014. In the limited attention Washington has …
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A discussion with Dr. Asel Doolotkeldieva. On Sunday, November 28, Kyrgyz citizens will once again be summoned to the ballot box to cast votes, closing out an exhausting year of …
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The question of whether Uzbekistan should join the Russia-led Eurasian Economic Union, with its single market of 184 million people, has provoked fierce debates. President Shavkat Mirziyoyev met Vladimir Putin …
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Ethnic intolerance has surfaced in an increasingly vicious political battle. With a large chunk of the population in the southern Kyrgyzstan city of Osh being represented by the ethnic Uzbek …
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Since attaining its independence from the Soviet Union 30 years ago, the tiny mountainous, landlocked Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan has never had much of an air force. Today, Bishkek …
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