Discrepancies in trade data between China, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan point to tens of billions in unregistered trade, much of which observers link to circumventing Western sanctions against Russia, ...

By bne Eurasia bureau What kind of autocracy will take shape in Kyrgyzstan now that President Sadyr Japarov has purged co-ruler Kamchybek Tashiyev and his allies? “Today, Japarov appears to be on the ...

The jury remains out on whether the June 2020 event was a nuclear test or not. What is certain is that we are in a time of nuclear uncertainty and it will continue for some time,” ...

Therefore the next Kyrgyz presidential election – barring accepted grounds for early elections such as resignation, removal, ...

Russian leader Vladimir Putin, seen here speaking at a press conference in Bishkek on November 26, 2025, where he declared ...

These meetings are held to help Central Asian countries develop a common position, which is critically important,” the Astana Times quoted Tukumov as saying, referring to the gathering in the Kazakh ...

The Constitutional Court in Kyrgyzstan has issued a ruling with implications for an ongoing political power struggle that will suit President Sadyr Japarov -- while also throwing an obstacle to any ...

General Tašiev, considered the real strongman of the country over the last five years, has been sidelined. According to an interview given by the president himself, some members of parliament h ...

Kyrgyzstan’s GDP grew by 11 percent in 2025 and around 9 percent in 2024, with the World Bank projecting a cool down to 6.5 ...

Kyrgyzstan's President Sadyr Japarov fired three ministers Monday seen as close to the dismissed former head of his security ...

By Alexander Thompson for Eurasianet For the past five-plus years, they had been known as the “two friends” who ran Kyrgyzstan. Then, on February 10, they were friends no more. With ruthless ...

The sudden dismissal of Kamchybek Tashiev as head of Kyrgyzstan’s State Committee for National Security (SCNS) marks a major ...