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1 day, 11 hours ago

In Kyrgyzstan, Matraimov Wriggles Free Again With a Fine

In early December, a court in the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, fined notorious former customs official Raimbek Matraimov 100,000 soms after he admitted guilt in the face of charges of illegal border crossing and hooliganism. Kaktus, a Kyrgyz media outlet, cited law enforcement sources saying that while Matraimov had promised to pay “several hundred million soms” into the state budget, he’d …

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2 weeks ago

Xi welcomes launch of key rail project

China Daily

President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory message on Friday to the commencement ceremony of the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway, expressing the hope that the project will further contribute to the economic and social development of the region and improve the well-being of the peoples. The construction of the railway is a strategic decision made by the three governments to promote regional connectivity, …

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2 weeks, 1 day ago

China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway project strategic for regional connectivity, prosperity

China Daily

BEIJING -- Chinese President Xi Jinping said Friday that the construction of the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway is a strategic decision made by the three governments to promote regional connectivity, prosperity and stability. Xi said that efforts should be made to build the railway into a new demonstration project for Belt and Road cooperation, so as to better contribute to the economic …

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1 month, 4 weeks ago

Toxic towns in Kyrgyzstan battling radioactive danger

Raw Story

In a mask and a hazmat suit, Ermek Murataliyev drives a truck filled with Soviet-era radioactive waste along the winding mountain roads of Kyrgyzstan. "When the Soviet Union collapsed, Kyrgyzstan had neither the equipment nor the money to transfer the waste to safe sites," said Ilgiz Ernis, deputy mayor of the Min-Kush municipality. "The content of the water that passes …

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1 month, 4 weeks ago

Trial of 11 Journalists in Kyrgyzstan Ends in Prison Sentences and Acquittals

The Diplomat

On October 10, nearly nine months after Kyrgyz authorities took 11 journalists associated with Temirov Live into custody, a court in Bishkek announced its verdict in the case: Two of the journalists, charged with organizing or aiding in “calls for mass unrest,” were sentenced to prison; two others were handed probation terms, and the remaining seven were acquitted. In a …

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2 months ago

The girl with sun-shaped earrings: A family remembers a murdered daughter

Al Jazeera

On a winter’s day in 2022, Mediyana Talantbekova failed to turn up for an exam. When the first “juuchular” – the suitor’s parents – approached Gulmayram, she asked a then 18-year-old Mediyana: “Kyzym, do you want to get married?” “No, apa, why?” Mediyana said. “I don’t want to go out with him, but he keeps insisting and sending me messages,’” …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Tommy Caldwell: He lost a finger and survived a kidnapping. Then, this pro climber took on a 9,000-foot ‘death-trap’

CNN

CNN — With jaw-dropping big wall ascents and a life packed with adrenaline and adventure, climber Tommy Caldwell has had a career worthy of – and captured by – a feature film. The Devil’s Thumb itself is known as being one of North America’s most dangerous walls, and the five peaks, Caldwell tells CNN Sport, were “probably the most menacing …

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2 months, 4 weeks ago

The Necessity of Central Asia’s Transformative Feminism

The Diplomat

The Central Asian contingent at the Asia Pacific Feminist Forum, held in Chiang Mai, Thailand in mid-September, was small. “We have transformative feminism in Central Asia,” Dunganaeva, a grassroots activist with the ALGA rural women’s association, said, rooted in the “many aspects of our culture, our history, our family and also our Soviet past, when there were big opportunities for …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Montana man who did unthinkable crime on sheep is jailed

Daily Mail

A Montana man found guilty of illegally cloning sheep has been sentenced to six months in federal prison. Arthur 'Jack' Schubarth of Vaughn, 81, used illegally imported sperm and testicle tissue from giant Marco Polo sheep hunted in Kyrgyzstan to create a his own animal he called the Montana Mountain King. The cloned sheep, named the 'Montana Mountain King,' was …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

World Nomad Games put the spotlight on the sport of the Great Steppe

Al Jazeera

Astana, Kazakhstan – Clouds of dust rise from the sandy ground of a playing field as a dozen horses converge, their riders standing in their stirrups as they direct their mounts towards an odd target: the headless and disembowelled carcass of a goat laying in the dust. This is not a movie but a game of kokpar, a horseback sport …

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3 months, 4 weeks ago

Women attending SCO forum praise Qingdao's development

China Daily

The SCO Forum on Women was held in the coastal city of Qingdao, Shandong province from Sept 10 to 12. Chinese and foreign guests attending the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Forum on Women paid a visit to the Qingdao SCODA Pearl International Expo Center on Sept 12, experiencing the fruitful achievements of Qingdao's economic and social development, especially by women. "China, …

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4 months ago

China-Kyrgyzstan center for blindness prevention opens in Osh

China Daily

BISHKEK - A center dedicated to blindness prevention cooperation with China has officially opened in a hospital in southern Kyrgyzstan. According to a report from the Chinese embassy on Monday, the China-Kyrgyzstan Cooperation Center of Blindness Prevention is designed to enhance ophthalmological collaboration between China and Kyrgyzstan. "This project is a new beginning of our cooperation in the field of …

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4 months ago

Kyrgyz-Tajik Border Agreement Hoped for in ‘Nearest Future’

The Diplomat

Kyrgyz and Tajik officials are hopeful of completing border negotiations in the next two to three months. Kyrgyz Foreign Minister Jeenbek Kulubayev said in an August 5 press conference that while “a number of points remain” the two sides are moving toward an agreement. Kulubayev said that the two countries’ heads of state want an agreement reached in the “nearest …

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4 months, 1 week ago

A Man of the People and a ‘Kyrgyz Prince’

The Diplomat

Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov has gone to great lengths to frame himself as a man of the people and a crusader against corruption. A May 2024 investigative report from the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, in partnership with Kyrgyz news outlets Kloop and TemirovLive, alleged that at least 11 major government projects were contracted out to companies owned by …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Sands of time reveal secrets

China Daily

Tang Yunpeng, from Wang's team, discusses a site with Bahodir Yusufov, a doctoral student from Uzbekistan on campus.ZOU HONG/CHINA DAILY Creating the bond As the study of the Greater Yuezhi made important progress, Chinese archaeologists began to pay closer attention to the Fergana Valley in 2019 — the valley runs through parts of present-day Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. That year, …

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4 months, 4 weeks ago

International expo sees increased efforts to woo Chinese tourists

China Daily

XI'AN - Although Kyrgyzstan might be unfamiliar to many Chinese tourists, Liusher Musaev undertook nearly 100 consultations about trips to the Central Asian nation during a three-day expo in China. Here you can experience mountain climbing, skiing and even hunting," the sales manager at the Asia Expeditions travel company said in Chinese as he busily welcomed visitors to his booth …

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5 months ago

Double retirement: Turkey’s Akgul, Kyrgyzstan’s Lazarev done after wrestling for Olympic bronze

Associated Press

PARIS — Turkey’s Taha Akgul and Kyrgyzstan’s Aiaal Lazarev wrestled for Olympic bronze, then both retired from the sport. Earlier in the week, Cuba’s Mijain Lopez retired after winning his record fifth gold medal and Ukraine’s Zhan Belenuik retired after earning bronze, his third Olympic medal. USA BATTLES FOR MEDALS Kyle Dake’s frantic comeback for bronze and Kennedy Blades’ push …

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5 months ago

Paris 2024 day-by-day guide of events

BBC

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5 months ago

Paris 2024 day-by-day guide of events

BBC

Schedule filters Filter by Sport: All Sports Artistic Swimming Athletics Basketball Beach Volleyball Boxing Breaking Canoe Sprint Cycling Track Diving Football Golf Handball Hockey Marathon Swimming Modern Pentathlon Rhythmic Gymnastics Sailing Sport Climbing Table Tennis Taekwondo Volleyball Water Polo Weightlifting Wrestling Only medal events Schedule list Finished Wrestling Men's Freestyle 57kg Repechage CHN - KGZ China - Kyrgyzstan Finished Wrestling …

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5 months ago

Bihar Youth's Kyrgyzstan Job Dreams Dashed by Fake Visa at Delhi Airport

News 18

Dhananjay Kumar, a 26-year-old resident of Kanjanpur village in Bihar’s Golapganj, experienced a dramatic turn of events at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport on July 30. The young man, who was elated to start a new job abroad, found himself in legal trouble after his Kyrgyzstan visa was discovered to be fraudulent. It was here that officials uncovered the forgery …

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5 months ago

US Diplomat Donald Lu, whom Rahul Gandhi met during ‘secret visit’ to White House, has earned mastery in regime change operations

Op India

In Bangladesh, thousands of rioters succeeded in their ‘regime change’ plans as they created unrest throughout the country demanding the resignation of the democratically elected Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Regarding his visit, the US had released a controversial press release claiming that Donald Lu embarked on a visit to Chennai to ‘strengthen bilateral relations with South India’. Regarding Donald Lu, …

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5 months, 1 week ago

Keeping Kyrgyz Journalism Afloat While the Island of Democracy Sinks

The Diplomat

On the chilly morning of January 15, 2024, Mahinur Niyazova, then editor-in-chief of one of Kyrgyzstan’s most popular independent media outlets, 24.kg, was on her way to attend a parliament hearing about proposed new media regulations when she received a call from her editor Anton Lymar. “I hid my phone away before entering our office.” What Niyazova saw upon arrival …

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5 months, 1 week ago

SCO Expansion: A Double-Edged Sword

The Diplomat

Belarus’ upcoming admission to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization shows that the once purely regional grouping – originally encompassing China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan – is steadily expanding its geographic and geopolitical reach. These two goals make enlargement of the organization to include more countries beyond Central Asia nothing but beneficial – even if this means further undermining the …

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5 months, 2 weeks ago

A complete list of Paris Olympics medal winners

Associated Press

PARIS — The 2024 Olympics are done. Sunday, Aug. 11 ATHLETICS WOMEN’S MARATHON Gold: Netherlands Silver: Ethiopia Bronze: Kenya BASKETBALL WOMEN’S Gold: United States Silver: France Bronze: Australia CYCLING TRACK MEN’S KEIRIN Gold: Netherlands Silver: Australia Bronze: Australia Silver: Germany Bronze: Britain WOMEN’S OMNIUM Gold: United States Silver: Poland Bronze: New Zealand HANDBALL MEN’S Gold: Denmark Silver: Germany Bronze: Spain …

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In Kyrgyzstan, Matraimov Wriggles Free Again With a Fine

Xi welcomes launch of key rail project

China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway project strategic for regional connectivity, prosperity

Toxic towns in Kyrgyzstan battling radioactive danger

Trial of 11 Journalists in Kyrgyzstan Ends in Prison Sentences and Acquittals

The girl with sun-shaped earrings: A family remembers a murdered daughter

Tommy Caldwell: He lost a finger and survived a kidnapping. Then, this pro climber took on a 9,000-foot ‘death-trap’

The Necessity of Central Asia’s Transformative Feminism

Montana man who did unthinkable crime on sheep is jailed

World Nomad Games put the spotlight on the sport of the Great Steppe

Women attending SCO forum praise Qingdao's development

China-Kyrgyzstan center for blindness prevention opens in Osh

Kyrgyz-Tajik Border Agreement Hoped for in ‘Nearest Future’

A Man of the People and a ‘Kyrgyz Prince’

Sands of time reveal secrets

International expo sees increased efforts to woo Chinese tourists

Double retirement: Turkey’s Akgul, Kyrgyzstan’s Lazarev done after wrestling for Olympic bronze

Paris 2024 day-by-day guide of events

Paris 2024 day-by-day guide of events

Bihar Youth's Kyrgyzstan Job Dreams Dashed by Fake Visa at Delhi Airport

US Diplomat Donald Lu, whom Rahul Gandhi met during ‘secret visit’ to White House, has earned mastery in regime change operations

Keeping Kyrgyz Journalism Afloat While the Island of Democracy Sinks

SCO Expansion: A Double-Edged Sword

A complete list of Paris Olympics medal winners