Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
Baktybek Abdrisaev was Kyrgyzstan's ambassador to the United States from 1997 to 2005 and is now a visiting professor of history and political science at Utah Valley University.
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Published in: oDRSpring: coming soon to Central Asia?All across the world, authoritarian governments are crashing, and new forms of democratic and term-limited regimes...
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Published in: oDRThe road to electoral perfection in KyrgyzstanKyrgyzstan’s October parliamentary elections revealed a number of teething problems in law and systems, write Alexey...
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Published in: oDRKyrgyzstan: reform starts with educationKyrgyzstan could be the first Central Asian parliamentary democracy. But the southern region has first to be...
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Published in: oDRKyrgyz elections: the birth of democracy?Recent parliamentary elections in Kyrgyzstan were declared free and fair, but Russia and its Central Asian...
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Published in: oDRKyrgyzstan’s referendum brings a flicker of hopeThe new constitution which the Kyrgyz people voted in on 27 June 2010 seeks to break the presidential pattern of...
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Published in: oDRKickstarting the Kyrgyz economyOn 8 April 2010 Kyrgyzstan experienced its second revolution in five years. The corrupt regime of President Bakiev...