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In late March 2026, during the celebration of the Central Asian new year, Nawruz, Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov announced the latest target for the completion of China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan (CKU) railway: 2030. [1]

In October 2024, Makhabat Tazhibek kyzy was convicted of organizing or aiding in “calls for mass unrest” and sentenced to six years in a Kyrgyz prison. [2]

Kyrgyzstan made international headlines on May 18, 2024, when an angry mob of over 700 people gathered and attacked students from India and Pakistan in a racially motivated assault. [3]

The recent events in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, have been somewhat difficult for outside observers to understand. [4]

Bishkek is Erdogan's pawn in Central Asia In the coming days the "Turkish Council", which gathers Ankara and the post-Soviet republics of Central Asia, will meet. Erdogan wants to turn it into a "Turkish Union". [5]

On Aike Beishekeyeva’s 23rd birthday on January 16, the young Kyrgyz journalist was planning to buy a cake to share with her colleagues. That celebration never happened. [6]

BISHKEK -- The National Bank, Kyrgyzstan's central bank, is ready to sign a currency swap agreement with its counterpart in China, following on the heels of Central Asian neighbors Kazakhstan and Tajikistan. [7]

ARALSK, Kazakhstan/BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan -- The wreckage of an old fishing vessel in the dry bay of Zhalanash, Kazakhstan, groans as a hot summer wind blows through its trembling remains. [8]

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[1] TH thediplomat.com · 2026-03-26 · 65% match

The Politics of the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan Railway

In late March 2026, during the celebration of the Central Asian new year, Nawruz, Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov announced the latest target for the completion of China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan (CKU) railway: 2030.

[2] TH thediplomat.com · 2026-03-23 · 65% match

Temirov Live Director Makhabat Tazhibek kyzy Released Pending New Trial

In October 2024, Makhabat Tazhibek kyzy was convicted of organizing or aiding in “calls for mass unrest” and sentenced to six years in a Kyrgyz prison.

[3] TH thediplomat.com · 2024-09-03 · 75% match

Finding Home in Bishkek: Kyrgyzstan’s South Asian Expats

Kyrgyzstan made international headlines on May 18, 2024, when an angry mob of over 700 people gathered and attacked students from India and Pakistan in a racially motivated assault.

[4] MM globalvoices.org · 2005-03-30 · 75% match

Elina Karakulova in Bishkek · Global Voices

The recent events in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, have been somewhat difficult for outside observers to understand.

[5] MM asianews.it · 75% match

Bishkek is Erdogan's pawn in Central Asia

Bishkek is Erdogan's pawn in Central Asia In the coming days the "Turkish Council", which gathers Ankara and the post-Soviet republics of Central Asia, will meet. Erdogan wants to turn it into a "Turkish Union".

[6] TH thediplomat.com · 2024-03-11 · 65% match

With Journalists Behind Bars, Kyrgyzstan Enters New Era of Repression

On Aike Beishekeyeva’s 23rd birthday on January 16, the young Kyrgyz journalist was planning to buy a cake to share with her colleagues. That celebration never happened.

[7] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2015-10-07 · 65% match

Kyrgyz central bank to close swap deal with China

BISHKEK -- The National Bank, Kyrgyzstan's central bank, is ready to sign a currency swap agreement with its counterpart in China, following on the heels of Central Asian neighbors Kazakhstan and Tajikistan.

[8] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2015-09-29 · 65% match

Reviving Central Asia's dead sea

ARALSK, Kazakhstan/BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan -- The wreckage of an old fishing vessel in the dry bay of Zhalanash, Kazakhstan, groans as a hot summer wind blows through its trembling remains.

[9] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2014-11-01 · 65% match

Kazakhstan wary of shadow of Ukraine crisis

ALMATY, Kazakhstan/BISHKEK -- The bride and groom posed for a portrait in front of a perpetual flame in an Almaty park that commemorates soldiers who died fighting in the Russian civil war and World War II.

[10] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2015-10-08 · 65% match

President's party wins Kyrgyzstan election

BISHKEK -- The party of Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev emerged the winner from recent polls in the only democracy in former Soviet Central Asia.

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