Author: Nurzat Kasymov

Ukraine received from the United States industrial-grade 3D printers capable of printing spare parts for equipment on the battlefield. This was announced by Assistant Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Maintenance William LaPlante According to the Pentagon, Ukrainian military personnel completed training in using these printers last week.“We finally delivered these industrial 3D printers to Ukraine last month, and their training on how to use the printer was completed last week,” LaPlante said during a speech at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS).According to him, “we are talking about a printer the size of a truck” and the appearance of these…

Kyrgyzstan’s main international airport has agreed to purchase two aircraft as part of efforts to grow connectivity within the landlocked Central Asian country. Manas International Airport (FRU), located 16 mi. from the capital Bishkek, has signed a deal with De Havilland Canada for a pair of Dash 8-400s, which are expected to be delivered next May. The acquisition is connected to a government strategy, led by President Sadyr Japarov, to “significantly increase” Kyrgyzstan’s domestic route network and lower the cost of airline tickets for passengers. As one of the smallest countries in Central Asia, the former Soviet state of Kyrgyzstan…

More than 26,000 Kyrgyzstanis left for Russia in the first half of 2023. According to the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat), 28,700 migrants from Kyrgyzstan arrived in Russia in the first half of the year. The number of those who left Russia for Kyrgyzstan in the first six months of this year reached 20,500 people. In 2022, about 28,400 migrants from Kyrgyzstan left for Russia during the same period. The number of those who left Russia for Kyrgyzstan amounted to 43,600 people. Earlier, Deputy Head of the Department of Control and Supervision Service of the Main Department of Internal Affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia Yuri Konobeevsky reported that in the first six months of 2023 the flow of Kyrgyzstanis to Russia…

The Ministry of Health confirmed that two unvaccinated children died of measles in the first six months of 2023. A three-year-old boy in Bishkek city and a one-year-old baby in Chui region died of this disease, their parents said, because of their religious beliefs, they refused to get their children vaccinated.According to official data, 1704 cases of measles have been registered since the beginning of the year. Most of them were in Osh region (609 cases) and Bishkek city (277 cases). The next places are Osh city (277 cases), Chui region (165 cases), Jalal-Abad region (94 cases), Batken region (89 cases), Talas…

The Ukrainian Defense Forces are attacking in several directions of the front. In particular, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have liberated a settlement in the Bakhmut direction and are advancing in the western part of the Zaporozhye region, the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reports on Friday, July 28. According to them, on July 27, the Armed Forces of Ukraine advanced north of Kleshchievka, which is 7 km southwest of Bakhmut. The defense forces also continued offensive operations north and south of the walled city. Meanwhile, Russian sources claimed that Ukrainian forces carried out assaults near Zheleznyansky, Berkhovka, Kleschievka, Andreevka and Severny.…

Korea National Railway announced on July 26 that it had signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Kyrgyz Railways for cooperation between the two entities, including a signal modernization project at Balykchy Station. Through this MOU, the two organizations will establish and operate a working group for systematic railway cooperation, and share information, technology, and experience related to the Balykchy Station signal modernization project, among other areas of mutual cooperation. The Korea National Railway plans to conduct its own feasibility study in the second half of this year with the aim of getting the Balykchy Station signal modernization project selected…

The Constitutional Court in Kyrgyzstan passed a groundbreaking ruling allowing citizens to choose a matronymic over patronymic in their names. People in Kyrgyzstan can now add an appendage to their first names that derive from their mothers’ names. The decision came after more than two years of legal standoff between the State Registration Service (SRS) and Altyn Kapalova, an activist, writer, and artist, who changed her children’s last name to her own and gave them the matronymic in 2021. SRS sued Kapalova, accusing her of breaking the law, and won in three consecutive courts until the Constitutional Court overruled their decisions and issued…

A Kyrgyz environmental activist has found a way to combat toxic fumes choking her city by literally turning trash into treasure, sewing clothes out of waste that would otherwise be burnt in a landfill or someone’s stove. Garments are a major industry in the Central Asian nation of 7 million, but manufacturers often discard scrap material in landfills outside the capital, Bishkek, to be burned or scavenged to heat people’s homes. Those fumes make the air even more toxic in Bishkek, which is already one of the world’s most polluted cities, thanks to its widespread use of coal. But artist…

The main features of women’s costumes in Kyrgyzstan were long dresses and wide trousers. Different costumes or styles would indicate if a young woman was married or single, and elderly women had their own style of dress and headdress. The colour was usually white, blue or red. The colour red was the main characteristic of a young woman’s dress. Recently, however, bright fabrics of other colors like orange and yellow have become fashionable. Older women tend to wear dresses of dark material. Different tribes, however, have their own traditions. Elderly women in the «kypchak», «mungush» and «adigine» tribes still prefer…

Police in Osh, Kyrgyzstan’s second-largest city, have detained a former leader of the city’s Uzbek culture center, Karamat Abdullaeva, who was sentenced in absentia to 16 years in prison for her alleged role in deadly ethnic clashes more than a decade ago. Police in the southern city of Osh said on April 24 that Abdullaeva was detained two days earlier and immediately placed in a detention center. The clashes between Kyrgyz and local Uzbeks started on June 10, 2010, in Kyrgyzstan’s southern regions of Osh and Jalal-Abad and lasted for several days. At least 446 people were killed, while thousands were injured…