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Tajikistan: A special group taksed with monitoring the internet is created

A special group to monitor online commentaries has been created within the State Communications Service of Tajikistan (SCST), it was announced on July 11. Internet experts consider the government...

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Kyrgyzstan: Residents of Kemin region protest the presence of “illegal”...

Residents of Kemin region have promised to reveal evidence of Chinese citizens working illegally in the construction of a local gold mining plant. The protesters say they have taken away jobs that...

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Tajikistan: Government says that eight millionth resident will be born this year

By the end of the year, Tajikistan will witness the birth of its eight millionth resident. Such was the claim made by Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade for Tajikistan Hamidullohon...

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Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan: Border guard gunfight investigations underway

The Kyrgyz border guard service claims that they and their counterparts from Uzbekistan are investigating a gunfight between state border troops in the Jalal-Abad region, which resulted in the death...

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Kyrgyzstan: Court allows Tynybekova to compete in the Olympics

Bishkek’s Leninsky district court has suspended the case of Aisuluu Tynybekova until after she returns from the Olympics in London. The athlete is accused of “beating” a minor. The girl’s mother has...

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Kyrgyzstan: Atambayev approves visa-free regime

President Atambaev has signed a law approved by parliament the previous month, according to which citizens of 44 countries will be able to stay for 60 days without a visa in Kyrgyzstan. The Law on...

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Tajikistan: The traditional way of life is a barrier for women in sport

The traditional way of life, religious beliefs, and poverty represent serious obstacles to the emergence of women in Tajikistan’s sporting world. But local experts affirm that religion should not be a...

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Tajikistan: YouTube blocked following fighting in Khorog

On the evening of July 25, another web resource, the video sharing platform YouTube, was blocked in Tajikistan. There are suggestions that the site has been blocked because of the events taking place...

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Kyrgyzstan: Southern businessmen threaten the authorities with a “shootout”...

Entrepreneurs of Sarai village in the Kara-Suu region of Osh oblast have threatened to “skirmish” with regional authorities after what they perceive as a “capture” of part of their market’s physical...

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Kyrgyzstan: The overflowing Lake Tez-Tor does not threaten Bishkek and its...

The situation at Lake Tez-Tor, where water was flowing over the lake’s dam, has returned to normal. On July 31, there were fears that because of the overflow of the lake, villages near the lake and...

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Tajikistan: Female boxer takes the country’s only Olympic medal

Despite the fact that her women’s boxing semi-finals ended in a defeat against Irishwoman Kathy Taylor, Tajik contestant Mavzuna Choriyeva was still able to claim bronze at the London 2012 Olympics....

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Kyrgyzstan: Government reports massive losses in the wheat yield

The Ministry of Agriculture has reported losses of 30-40 per cent from the national wheat yield in 2012 due to heat and drought. Farmers say the losses are significant. Head of the department of Food...

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Kyrgyzstan: The prosecutor’s office initiates criminal proceedings against...

Kyzyl-Kiya city prosecutor’s office has opened a criminal case against police, who are accused of “beating” Kanybek Bakirov, the son of MP Tursunbai Bakir uulu. The police, in turn, accuse Bakirov of...

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Tajikistan: Former Badakhshani warlord surrenders to the authorities

Tolib Ayembekov, the main suspect in the murder of Abdullo Nazarov, a General in the Tajik security services, has voluntarily surrendered to authorities. Ayembekov, a former warlord, appeared on...

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Kyrgyzstan: Chon-Alai residents threaten to burn Chinese mine because of the...

A Chinese gold mining plant in the Chon-Alay district of Osh region harms the health of local residents, say protesters, who have threatened to burn the factory if it does not close before August 15....

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Kyrgyzstan: Court will deliver a verdict on the severed finger and ear sent...

A Kyrgyz Military Court is to consider the case of the severed ear and finger sent on August 17, 2007, to Medet Sadyrkulov, former Chief of Staff under President Bakiev. Sadyrkulov died a year after...

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Kyrgyzstan: SCNS accuses the owners of five Chinese companies of tax evasion

The property of five Chinese companies has been seized by the State Committee of National Security (SCNS). They are accused of tax evasion to the tune of more than 50 million soms (KGS). The companies...

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Kyrgyzstan: A man similar to Zhanysh Bakiyev sighted in Minsk

Belarusian activist Mikhail Pashkevich photographed a man resembling the brother of ousted Kyrgyz president Kurmanbek Bakiyev – Zhanysh Bakiyev – in a cafe in Minsk. The President’s brother has been...

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Global Voices Kyrgyzstan: China Inc under attack

Physically bordered, but culturally distant, China’s growing economic presence in Kyrgyzstan continues to be a topic for heated discussion in Kyrgyz society. In the country’s regions, this discourse...

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Kyrgyzstan: Kyrgyz national to face trial in America for bomb threat

A Kyrgyz national, Adylbek Kozubaev, has been arrested in the U.S. state of Illinois for having allegedly threatened to blow up a shopping centre in Iowa. The 22-year-old Kyrgyz appeared before a...

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