Double Win for Kyrgyz Government in Key Mayoral Polls
Election victories in Bishkek and Osh reflect strength of governing group.
Election victories in Bishkek and Osh reflect strength of governing group.
Visitors feel weight of state surveillance.
Focus seems to be on Western governments' strategic aims to the exclusion of humanitarian concerns and Syrians' own wishes.
Practice of forcing people to subscribe to newspapers they don’t want has to stop.
Small band of doctors treated horrendous injuries without anaesthetics in besieged town.
Drive to promote Kyrgyz language could leave minorities out in the cold.
Russia and three Central Asian states are pledging stronger defence cooperation, but Uzbekistan is having none of it.
Former minister Zayd Saidov faces a range of charges a month after he launched a political party.
Immigrants imbued with traditional values of masculinity and power can run into problems fitting into a different kind of society.
Membership of former Soviet bloc is as much about political alliances as about economics.