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31.01.2018 17:59 msk Afghanistan Analytics Business Central Asia Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Politics Religious life Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan
Emomali Rahmon is a leader whose political whit served him well: not only is he the President of Tajikistan for the 26th year in a row, but he has also been able to personally enrich himself and his family. Having eliminated most of the checks on his power inside the country, something wholly differ
19.01.2018 15:38 msk Analytics Central Asia Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan
Political Science is usually quite good at figuring out the main power players and relevant structures in the political systems of most countries. Those of us who are interested in Central Asia, however, will encounter an utterly incredible mess in the analysis of the political processes in the regi
16.01.2018 13:13 msk Analytics Human Rights Kyrgyzstan Politics
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09.01.2018 22:06 msk Analytics Central Asia Kyrgyzstan Politics
Shortly before Kyrgyzstan’s Presidential elections in October 2017, the prominent American analyst Ian Bremmer interviewed President Almazbek Atambayev in a long article for TIME Magazine and introduced Kyrgyzstan as a “genuine democracy in a part of the world that doesn’t have any.” Atambayev himse
29.10.2017 22:50 msk Analytics Central Asia Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan
Weekly editorial by Ernest Zhanaev, English Editor
25.10.2017 23:02 msk Human Rights Kyrgyzstan Politics Uzbekistan
A museum dedicated to life and murder of a young and prominent journalist Alisher Saipov opens its doors in the southern capital of Kyrgyzstan , Osh city, where ten years ago, on 24 October, two bullets, the assassin shot at the journalist, stopped his independent voice.
24.10.2017 23:58 msk Business Human Rights Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyz traders who tried to cross the border with Kazakhstan have been sustaining huge losses; the Kazakh government refuses to pass the produce - mostly vegetables and fruits - on and through its territory, explaining their neighbour and partner in the Eurasian Economic Union (EEA) has no means to
23.10.2017 09:26 msk Business Central Asia Editorial Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Politics Uzbekistan
Weekly editorial by Ernest Zhanaev, English Editor, Fergana News
13.10.2017 09:08 msk Kyrgyzstan Politics
The situation around the presidential elections in Kyrgyzstan, scheduled for 15 October, continues to heat up. The national authorities themselves are afraid of possible unrest and external interference in the voting process, and the opposition expresses concerns by the flow of complaints about its
13.10.2017 01:11 msk Analytics Interview Kyrgyzstan
Election of the new head of Kyrgyzstan will be held on Sunday, 15 October. The closer the time of voting, the more bold statements the incumbent president allows himself. He managed to spoil relations not only with his former colleagues. Speaking on 7 October, at the ceremony of awarding teachers, a
04.10.2017 08:12 msk Kyrgyzstan Politics Religious life
Religion has traditionally been a delicate topic for Kyrgyzstan . Even though the overwhelming majority of the Republic’s population identifies as Muslim, no presidential candidate has been in any hurry to touch upon the topic of religion in their election manifestos. Is the political elite ignoring
27.09.2017 09:16 msk Analytics Human Rights Kyrgyzstan
If the presidential elections in Kyrgyzstan, scheduled on 15 October, would have conducted today the clear winner would be Omurbek Babanov. The charismatic, strong-willed and young politician, he has the advantage above all his competitors. And first of all far from the candidate from the party of p
15.09.2017 13:08 msk Analytics Kyrgyzstan Politics
“Krysha” (or “krisha”) in Russia means “roof” or “cover”. The term born in the 1990s when the rule of law was weak and racketeers protected vulnerable entrepreneurs from other gangsters for a fee or a share of its gain. Later, central or local government officials started "covering" business themsel
13.09.2017 16:31 msk Human Rights Kyrgyzstan Politics Religious life
On 12 September, the District Court in Bishkek sentenced journalist Zulpukar Sapanov to four years in prison finding him guilty of "inciting inter-religious hostility". Sapanov wrote and published the "Kydyr sanjyrasy" (literal translation - "Genealogy of the forefather Kydyr") book in which the aut
06.09.2017 23:21 msk Ferghana Valley Kyrgyzstan Politics Uzbekistan
On 5 September, Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev arrived in Bishkek to sign the agreement on the Kyrgyz-Uzbek border. Many experts, including the leadership of both republics, are considering the first visit of the Uzbek president to Kyrgyzstan in 17 years as a sign of warming of bilateral relatio
11.08.2017 09:29 msk Analytics Kyrgyzstan Politics
Kyrgyzstan is the only country in Central Asia that surprises with its unpredictable elections. Fergana News Agency with the assistance of its sources drew a picture of the current situation.
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