Author: Aktan Akhmedov

NOC President Sadyr Mamytov signed a memorandum for the construction of the facility with As-Salam Humanitarian Foundation President Sarybai uulu Bakyt and chairman Nabel Al-Oun. It is set to become Bishkek’s first purpose-built facility for martial arts and team sports including basketball, volleyball and futsal, and be used to host major sports events in Kyrgyzstan. The complex is also expected to be used as a national team training base. Al-Oun expressed his thanks to the NOC and his organisation’s willingness to support similar initiatives in the future. “Our As-Salam Foundation has built many other infrastructure projects in Kyrgyzstan but this…

According to the Estonian Defense Forces, Russia is able to make up for its human losses in Ukraine through new recruitment, so it will be able to continue the war at the same pace for a long time. This was stated on Friday by the head of the intelligence center of the Defense Forces, Colonel Margo Grosberg. While Russia is not doing as well with reserves as Ukrainians, he said, it will be able to bring in about 190,000 additional troops as part of the recruitment announced on April 1 for the armed forces. The Russian leadership set itself the…

Explosions were heard in the area of ​​the Russian-occupied Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. They were recorded by the observers of the IAEA mission. He noted that IAEA experts recorded explosions on July 26 and 27. The observers also found mines on the territory of the station. “Recently, we have information from representatives of the IAEA, who are permanently located at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, that mines have been identified. The latest information was that they heard explosions on July 26 and 27,” Korikov said. The situation at the occupied ZNPP As previously reported, the head of the GUR, Kirill Budanov, said…

New medical centers will soon be launched in Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan, which will play a significant role in promoting the country’s health diplomacy, IRNA quoted IRCS official, Peyman Namdar, as saying. By setting up medical centers in Central Asia, the Iranian Red Crescent Society develops its humanitarian activities, he added. The Iranian Red Crescent Society manages several hospitals, polyclinics, as well as hemodialysis and rehabilitation centers in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, he highlighted. The centers are self-governed and their humanitarian activities are funded by receiving the costs of medical services from patients and collecting aid from philanthropists, he…

Russian officials are working to lure back the hundreds of thousands of citizens who moved abroad since the launch of the country’s military offensive against Ukraine — but have so far given them little, if any, incentive to go back. Between 700,000 and 1.5 million Russians are estimated to have left the country following the February 2022 offensive, either out of opposition to the war or fear of being sent to the frontlines.  For the Kremlin, this mass exodus of predominantly young, educated workers — widely called relokanti (which translates to “those who’ve relocated”) — is a matter of urgency, as it exacerbates the…

Azhar Amanova, a pensioner living on the southern outskirts of the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, has had enough. For more than a week, her neighborhood of Archa Beshik had depended on modest rations of water distributed from a tanker once a day. It was enough to drink in small amounts and wash a few dishes, but not to bathe. On a visit to Amanova’s home on June 6, the temperature had reached nearly 36 degrees Celsius. Last week alone, Bishkek broke records on four straight days for its daytime highs since such temperatures were first recorded early in the previous century.…

The Central Asian nation’s security agency confirmed more than 30 arrests among groups involved in allegedly plotting a coup. More than 30 people were arrested in Kyrgyzstan for allegedly plotting a coup against Sadyr Japarov, the national security agency said on Tuesday. The arrests were made to dismantle the group planning to seize power through various riots and protests, the state security service GNKB added. The detentions started taking place on Monday ten people detained from various parts of the Central Asian nation, according to RFE/RL.  The state committee confirmed the repot, publishing video which shows police detaining opposition members who are…

Sure enough, Washington, London and Canberra have defied international opposition and announced recently the pathway to the AUKUS nuclear submarines pact. They have even coerced the IAEA Secretariat into endorsement on the safeguards issues. Such a lowlight of March, revealing the self-serving nature of politicians from the new three-way alliance, adds nuclear proliferation risk, undermines the international non-proliferation regime, fuels arms race and destroys peace and stability in Asia-Pacific, thereby setting a damaging precedent. Ever since the signing of AUKUS more than a year ago, the international community, especially countries from Asia-Pacific, have publicly and repeatedly expressed concerns, doubts and…

Kyrgyzstan’s Ministry of Education and Science has extended school winter holidays due to abnormally cold weather, its press service said Tuesday. Holidays began on Dec. 30 last year and was supposed to end on Wednesday. The ministry decided to extend the holidays until Sunday, given the adverse weather conditions, according to a press release. A cold wave is expected to hit Kyrgyzstan from Wednesday with snow and intense precipitation in some parts of the country, with air temperatures in some regions dropping to minus 38 degrees Celsius, Kyrgyzstan’s Hydrometeorological Service warned. The cold weather will negatively impact the grazing and…

The International Issyk-Kul Marathon of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) “Run the Silk Road” started on Saturday in Cholpon-Ata town of Kyrgyzstan. The start of the marathon was given by Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of Kyrgyzstan Edil Baisalov and SCO Secretary General Zhang Ming. The marathon is held in order to strengthen cultural and humanitarian cooperation between the SCO countries, promote a healthy lifestyle, improve the sportsmanship of participants and develop internal and external event tourism. Over 3,000 participants from 23 countries and regions registered for the event, which includes marathon, half marathon, a 10km run and…