China Asks Kyrgyzstan to End 23-Day Roadblock
The Chinese Embassy in Bishkek has called on the Kyrgyz government to end a weeks-old protest that has blocked a strategic road and stranded over 300 trucks near Kyrgyzstan’s border with China....
View ArticleKyrgyzstan Names and Shames Mobsters in Government
Kyrgyzstan’s local government councils are infested with gangsters, according to the Interior Ministry. Speaking at a meeting of parliament’s Ata-Meken faction on August 20, Interior Minister Abdulla...
View ArticleUzbekistan: Prosecutors Deny Holding Gulnara’s Daughter Captive
President Islam Karimov’s 16-year-old granddaughter is not being held against her will in Uzbekistan, prosecutors have announced, and she is free to leave the residence where her mother, Gulnara...
View ArticleUzbekistan: Turf War in Tashkent?
As the fallout from a criminal investigation targeting Gulnara Karimova, the daughter of President Islam Karimov, continues to resonate in Uzbekistan, several high-ranking law-enforcement officers have...
View ArticleKyrgyzstan’s Politicos Seek Cash Cows as Parliamentary Campaign Looms
With elections to Kyrgyzstan’s ever-volatile parliament just a year away, it is an uneasy time to be a private businessman in the Central Asian country. According to managers at one of the country’s...
View ArticleKazakhstan: Will French Kickback Probe Dog Nazarbayev's Brussels Trip?
French investigators are probing suspected kickbacks paid over a lucrative helicopter deal with Kazakhstan, Le Monde has revealed. The report emerged the day before President Nursultan Nazarbayev...
View ArticleIs Kazakhstan Bidding for the Olympics or the OlympBucks?
The question on some minds in Almaty is not if Kazakhstan’s financial hub will win the right to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, but rather, if Almaty does, who will steal the public funds designated for...
View ArticleUzbekistan: Second Nordic Telecom Dogged by Gulnara-Linked Bribery Claims
Fresh allegations have emerged of bribery in Uzbekistan’s telecoms market involving another Nordic company and Gulnara Karimova, the daughter of President Islam Karimov. A cellphone company partly...
View ArticleKazakhstan: Graft Case Against Ex-PM to Fuel Succession Speculation
A former prime minister of Kazakhstan has been placed under house arrest on corruption charges. The rare move against such a high-ranking member of the political establishment is sure to set tongues...
View ArticleKyrgyzstan: Nationalist Leader Faces Charges as Parliamentary Campaign Begins
A former mayor of Kyrgyzstan’s second-largest city faces criminal charges connected to his time in office, local media are reporting. The state prosecutor issued an arrest warrant for Melisbek...
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