Kyrgyzstan

The rays on the sun are a little straighter -- even if the priorities of the Kyrgyz government remain wavering. 

But President Sadyr Japarov has also made clear that change -- and cash registers -- are coming to the country's bazaars one way or another. 

The foreign ministers of the CSTO, of which Russia is a member, without apparent irony put out a statement that says “no state should ensure its security at the expense of the security of other states.”

After a December 1 meeting in Tajikistan, security officials on both sides are proclaiming success and promising progress.

Government officials say the current iteration, which was designed just after independence, looks like a sunflower.

As a generation of Central Asian adoptees enter adulthood in the United States, their personal quests for identity sit side-by-side with discussions of decolonization.

It appears a purge is underway, as Tashiev decries the corrupt in Kyrgyzstan. 

Journalists, influencers, and religious teachers are using social media to inform Central Asians about the Israel-Hamas war.

USAID Administrator Samantha Power announced an additional $14.3 million in regional programing, plus $18.7 million to boost collaboration in Uzbekistan, specifically.

The bill must be passed in three readings before heading to the president, but time is growing short for amendments to be made.

The Kyrgyz public’s doubts and questions about the Kolbaev killing are the expression of what they cannot see for lack of a transparent legal system amid the state’s apparent fight against criminality. 

Two years after re-instituting the Constitutional Court, Japarov has approved a law that opens its decisions to presidential interference.