Kyrgyzstan

In another sign of Armenia’s worsening relations with Russia, its onetime ally and protector, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan have refused to participate in a Commonwealth…

Kyrgyzstan’s Ministry of Agriculture suggests introducing a temporary ban on export of wheat and flour outside the customs territory of the Eurasian Economic Union states. An appropriate draft decree of…

The Kyrgyz Republic’s economy is projected to grow more slowly in 2023 due to a slowdown in gold production and the impact of unfavorable weather on agriculture, despite strong performance…

The local branch of the national farmers’ union, Coldiretti, struck a deal with Kyrgyzstan authorities to send about a hundred local farmers to the Mediterranean island, in an effort to…

Kyrgyzstan is considering attracting investments from Azerbaijan and is prepared to create all needed circumstances for profitable funding actions, Bakyt Torobayev, the Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of…

The Committee to Protect Journalists says it is relieved by Wednesday’s decision by a Kyrgyzstan appeals court to annul a lower court ruling ordering the closure of Radio Azattyk, the local service of U.S.…

MOSCOW — A court in Kyrgyzstan’s capital Bishkek on Thursday rescheduled for March 15 the hearing of a request by the country’s Culture Ministry to close down Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s…

Once hailed as an example of democracy in Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan is tightening government control over the press. Rights’ groups warn that the latest draft of a new media law…

Frankfurt, Brussels, London (18/1 – 67) Tajikistan regime’s crimes against humanity and human rights defenders have attracted the United Nation. Recently, Mary Lawlor, the United Nations’ special rapporteur on the…

It’s perhaps not surprising that Tajikistan, which shares a poorly guarded, 750-mile border with opium-rich Afghanistan, has become a major global drug-trafficking hub—in fact, more than 80 percent of Afghanistan’s heroin…