Sanctions notwithstanding, the country remains a magnet for migrants Daniyar abdyrakhmanov, a 37-year-old from Jany-Jer, a village in the Batken region in southern Kyrgyzstan, has spent half his life toiling …
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Kyrgyzstan intensifies crackdown on back-to-basics Islamic group Police in Kyrgyzstan announced last week that they had detained the local leader of a little-known but, they say, increasingly influential fundamentalist Islamic …
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Through crowdsourcing, rights groups say they are documenting a campaign of beatings and torture. ALMATY, Kazakhstan — One evening in early January, Yerlan Zhagiparov left his home to see what …
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Officials in Central Asia’s most populous country are spooked by the unrest across their border. At the start of 2022, Kazakhstan appeared stable, prosperous, and independent; within a week, its …
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But an air of thuggishness still prevails The last time Kyrgyzstan had a general election, just over a year ago, the consequences were, by any democratic criterion, far from orthodox—and …
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An outspoken local deputy says police are trying to shame her into silence, using techniques evocative of the late Islam Karimov’s dictatorship. When Feruza Babasheva was elected to her local …
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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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As expected, Shavkat Mirziyoyev cruised to a landslide victory in Uzbekistan’s presidential election on October 24. However, he saw his share of the vote slip from the 89 percent he …
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Some voters feel manipulated by being asked to play along in the choice-free election. As President Shavkat Mirziyoyev swung through Bukhara on the campaign trail in mid-October, students sporting T-shirts …
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Shavkat Mirziyoyev’s reforms are at risk of losing momentum The screens of the digital billboards illuminating the streets of Tashkent flip between the faces of politicians who are running in …
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