“The believers think that if a politician is close to religion, he is definitely honest, fair and not a thief, not engaged in corruption, so people vote for him during elections. If people get more literate, politicians will have to deal with it and will stop deceiving people over time,” Chubak azhy Zhalilov, a former mufti of Kyrgyzstan, said to cabar.asia. (more…)

Requirements to minibus drivers are poorly monitored. (more…)

“In the post-Soviet space, all the difficulties of migration management stem from the fact, that migration is perceived as a geopolitical weapon. Having changed only the focus of the view on this issue, one can get rid of many difficulties, ” – said Olga Gulina, director of the Institute for Migration Policy (Berlin, Germany), especially for cabar.asia. (more…)