Kyrgyzstan: Alarm at Tribal Claim to Separate Status
Acceding to one group’s demands for formal recognition as separate ethnicity could open Pandora’s box, analysts warn.
Acceding to one group’s demands for formal recognition as separate ethnicity could open Pandora’s box, analysts warn.
Government needs to do more to combat sexual exploitation and forced labour.
Instead, observers from former Soviet states will applaud the ruling party's repeat victory.
Secretary of state’s travel itinerary was a political statement in itself – be nice to the Kyrgyz, and snub the Uzbeks.
Renewed campaign on potentially far-reaching legal changes that are now before parliament.
Momir Nikolic gets 27 years despite plea agreement with prosecutors who recommended maximum of 20.
“We felt a terrible sense of guilt that we were safe, and there were people left in danger.”
It will be near-impossible to fulfil EU-mandated obligations without a paradigm shift in how the ruling party views its role and place in the country’s history.
After a recent flurry of diplomacy, Yerevan and Baku seem closer than ever to attaining normalisation.
Moscow views peacekeeping efforts as an attempt to oust it from its previous role as sole mediator in the conflict.