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BISHKEK (TCA) — The European Union, which is currently negotiating enhanced relations with Kyrgyzstan, should use this opportunity to stress that closer relations will be tied to timely release of Azimjon Askarov, a jailed 68-year-old human rights defender from Kyrgyzstan, Human Rights Watch said on December 6. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — As countries of Central Asia are now building their new regional cooperation, they need effective and permanent institutional structures that would help to achieve this goal. We are republishing this article on the issue, written by Svante E. Cornell and S. Frederick Starr: Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Entrepreneurship Support Centre (ESC) in Osh, Kyrgyzstan’s second largest city, marked its first anniversary on December 4, in a celebration organized by the Centre together with the OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek. The mission of the ESC is to provide information and consulting support to entrepreneurs, as well as to form, prepare and promote high-quality business initiatives for the development of entrepreneurship in the Osh region. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — About two dozen Kyrgyz activists have demonstrated in front of the United Nations' office in Bishkek, demanding immediate action to help the multiethnic indigenous community in China’s northwestern region of Xinjiang, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reported. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — The member countries of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) — Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia — may in the future abandon border procedures on inner frontiers and adopt a single currency by analogy with the legislation of the European Union, Kyrgyzstan President Sooronbai Jeenbekov told Rossiya-24 television on December 3, Russia’s TASS news agency reported. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — A conference on best practices to improve public service delivery at the local level was held in Bishkek on November 30. The event was attended by representatives of 30 municipalities of Issyk-Kul and Jalal-Abad provinces and government agencies, the Embassy of Switzerland in the Kyrgyz Republic reported. Continue reading
