Author: Arstanbek Ibraev

Kyrgyzstan’s Health Ministry reported on Tuesday that it has detected cases of Influenza A H3N2 in Osh city in the south of the Central Asian country. Laboratory test results showed several patients in the city were influenza A H3N2 positive, the Disease Prevention and State Sanitary and Epidemiological Supervision Department of the ministry said. The disease is seasonal and is registered annually in the country, the ministry added. Laboratory results have detected acute respiratory viral infections in the country, including parainfluenza, bocavirus, respiratory syncytial virus, seasonal coronavirus, adenovirus and metapneumovirus, but the epidemiological situation in Bishkek is stable. Over the…

Pervomayskiy district governor Murat Osmonov visited the municipal institution Kolomto, which provides shelter for the homeless. The municipal institution Kolomto operates year-round and is designed for 70 people without a fixed place of residence. Constantly, 70-75 homeless people stay at Kolomto, and in winter, their number reaches up to 100. They are brought by law enforcement officers and ambulance teams, while some seek help on their own. In this shelter, individuals can stay overnight, have a meal, undergo a medical examination and basic sanitation, as well as take a shower and launder clothes in the laundry. In case of having…

Kyrgyzstan is one of the attractive areas of activity for Swiss businessmen. This was stated by participants in a remote meeting between the President of the Trade and Industry Board of the Kyrgyz Republic Temir Sariev and the Director of the United Chamber of Commerce of Switzerland Dorita Sallis. During the meeting, the parties discussed the prospects for further cooperation between the chambers of commerce and industry. Temir Sariev expressed Kyrgyzstan’s interest in building up trade and economic relations with Switzerland. Dorita Sallis noted that Kyrgyzstan is also one of the attractive areas of activity for Swiss businessmen and confirmed her readiness…

In August 2023, the overall inflation rate in Kyrgyzstan was 5.5% compared to December 2021. This data is provided by the National Statistics Committee. It is noted that Kyrgyzstan ranked second in inflation among the EAEU countries. This was affected by the maximum increase in prices for non-food products – by 8.2%. At the same time, among the EAEU countries, Kazakhstan took first place in terms of inflation (6.6%). This was influenced by rising prices for food products (by 5.9%) and services provided to the population (7.7%).  In Russia, overall inflation was 3.7%, and in Belarus – 2.9%. The only country where there was…

Head of Counternarcotics Service Ulanbek Sultanov took part in a regional meeting of experts on unmanned aerial vehicles and innovative technologies in Karakol. The event was attended by UNODC Regional Representative Ashita Mitall, Head of the UNODC Program Office in the Kyrgyz Republic Andrey Seleznev, delegations from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Russia, Belarus, representatives of CARICC, national government agencies. On the first day, an exhibition of innovative equipment technology and a ceremony of transferring technical equipment to the Counternarcotics Service took place. Ulanbek Sultanov delivered a welcoming speech, noting that “the use of UAVs in combating drug trafficking allows to quickly respond…

Kyrgyzstan will send seven experienced male boxers to the Asian Games which starts in Hangzhou, China on September 23. The team includes medallist from the World Boxing Championships and the ASBC Asian Elite Boxing Championships. Mr. Daniyar Tologon Uulu, Mr. Ulan Sagynbayev and Mr. Akyikat Abayev selected the boxers to the first Qualifier and the management is expecting to earn spots for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. The Kyrgyz national team competed in several preparation events this year including the Men’s Elite World Boxing Championships, the Bocskai Memorial Tournament, the Belgrade Winner Tournament and the Shopokov Memorial Tournament. Nurzhigit Dyushebayev…

The military intelligence of Ukraine actually admitted its involvement in the murder of Stanislav Rzhitsky, deputy head of the mobilization work department of the Krasnodar mayor’s office. The website of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine published news about the murder of Captain 2nd Rank Stanislav Rzhitsky, who previously commanded the Krasnodar submarine. The report does not explicitly state that the killer acted on the orders of the Ukrainian special services. However, details are given that only those who ordered the crime could know. On July 10, a former submariner was jogging in the Krasnodar Park of…

Saodat Jumaboeva and her family of three are flying to Istanbul this week in the first leg of a journey to what the Tajik migrants hope will be a new, better life in the United States.The Jumaboevs have been planning their trip for months along with five others — a fellow Tajik and four Kyrgyz — whom they befriended in Moscow, where the Central Asians currently live and work.None of them has a U.S. visa, and they are not planning to apply for one.Instead, the friends are joining a rapidly growing mass of Central Asian and Russian asylum seekers who…

Two New York lawyers, husband and wife Arthur Arcadian and Ilona Dzhamgarova, have been sentenced to six months and two years in prison, respectively, for assisting asylum seekers, mostly from the former Soviet Union, to prepare false affidavits and coaching their clients to lie under oath. The U.S. Attorney’s Office said on May 31 that the couple’s Dzhamgarova Firm “advised certain of its clients regarding the manner in which they were most likely to obtain asylum in this country, fully understanding that those clients did not legitimately qualify for asylum.” 

A creative collective from Kyrgyzstan has designed a web extension that doesn’t so much draw a line under the country’s Russian colonial past as run a big red one through it. The Birtops group from Kyrgyzstan’s capital, Bishkek, won a gold medal earlier this month at a long-running regional marketing festival in Minsk called The White Square.They scooped their prize for a new web plugin called We Are Kyrgyzstan, which automatically corrects users on any online use of “Kirghizia” — the Russian colonial and Soviet-era designation for their now-independent country — with the word “Kyrgyzstan.”That is a boost to Kyrgyz who find…