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Published in: oDR: AnalysisThe true toll of the Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan border conflict
Research by Human Rights Watch suggests Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan may be guilty of war crimes
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Published in: oDR: FeatureKyrgyzstan’s MPs put vital HIV funding at risk over ‘national traditions’
People living with HIV/AIDS said missing out on the $29m Global Fund grant would have “catastrophic consequences”
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Published in: oDR: FeatureKyrgyzstan was a safe haven for anti-war Russians. Then things got hostile
Russian opposition activists are threatened with expulsion from supposedly neutral Kyrgyzstan
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Published in: 50.50: NewsSexual violence laws enable impunity in Eurasia, report finds
Equality Now is calling on Eurasian countries to amend sexual violence laws towards consent-based definitions
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Published in: oDR: AnalysisDid Kyrgyzstan turn into an authoritarian state overnight?
The country, once considered Central Asia's most democratic, has seen a media and civic crackdown sparked by a...
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Published in: oDR: OpinionA decade on, what has been learnt from Kyrgyzstan's 2010 clashes?
If ordinary people improve the prospects for dialogue, they can deescalate violence at critical times. That's how...
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Published in: oDR“Even though I am in prison, I feel the freedom of my soul”
Today Azimjon Askarov, an imprisoned human rights defender from southern Kyrgyzstan, faces an appeal hearing. In...
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Published in: oDRYoung disabled people in Kyrgyzstan find new goals and opportunities
More than 5,000 people with vision impairment live in Kyrgyzstan. I speak to Matluba Hakimova about independence,...
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Published in: oDRUlanbek Egizbaev’s search for the truth in Kyrgyzstan
The sudden tragic death of an investigative journalist raises questions about the fate of the press in Kyrgyzstan.
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Published in: oDRUncovering Stalin’s terror in Kyrgyzstan
Eighty years after Stalin’s Great Terror, the names of thousands of its victims in Kyrgyzstan have still not been...
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Published in: oDRRough justice in Kyrgyzstan
New data shows that 96% of people who find themselves before a Kyrgyz court receive a guilty verdict (unless they...
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Published in: oDRThe Central Asian valley where borders dissolve in grassroots cooperation
Sandwiched between three Central Asian states, people living on all sides of the Ferghana Valley are overcoming...
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Published in: oDRHopeless but happy: Azimjon Askarov and the discontents of Kyrgyzstan’s post-2010 order
A new memoir by Kyrgyzstan’s most prominent political prisoner takes readers back to the violence and impunity that...
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Published in: oDRKyrgyzstan survives on money made by migrant workers, but it doesn’t know how to spend it
No country in the world is as dependent on remittances as Kyrgyzstan. But this money is often used by families to...
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Published in: oDRAbuse of power? On the trail of China's mystery millions in Kyrgyzstan
For over six months, Kyrgyzstan has been mired in a high-level corruption scandal: a disastrous $386 million project...
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Published in: oDRWhat we know about alleged elite corruption under former Kyrgyz president Almazbek Atambayev
As Kyrgyzstan’s new regime consolidates power, fresh allegations of corruption by Atambayev loyalists are emerging.
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Published in: oDRFear and loathing in Kyrgyzstan: how the LGBTQI community is fighting back against rising discrimination
LGBTQI people remain easy targets in Kyrgyzstan, with nowhere to turn for recourse. But activists are fighting back.
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Published in: oDRDouble discrimination: why Uzbek women in Kyrgyzstan are a minority within a minority
In the aftermath of Kyrgyzstan's 2010 revolution, the country's Uzbek minority population has seen their position...
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Published in: oDRAre Kyrgyzstan’s glaciers under threat? This ecologist thinks so
The Central Asian state’s Tian Shan mountain range isn’t just home to shrinking glaciers. It’s also the site of an...
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Published in: oDRHow social media users in Kyrgyzstan are turned into “extremists”
In Kyrgyzstan, social media users are persecuted for sharing their opinions online. It’s easy to find “incitement to...