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Kyrgyzstan is planning to build a road across the Besh-Aral Reserve in Chatlak district, Dzhalal-Abad region, and then to build an HPP and mine gold. To do so, the Cabinet of Ministers passed a decree in 2023 on the transformation of 200 hectares of the reserve area.
Authorities of Kyrgyzstan want to lift the moratorium on uranium and thorium mining, which was introduced in 2019 after the scandal around Kyzyl-Ompol field. (more…)
Heating season of 2023/2024 is going to end. Kyrgyzstanis will remember it best for the accident on the Bishkek thermal power plant, forced power cuts, and even water cuts in some places. As long as the republic depends on the power imports, officials make plans to reach surplus and start exporting it by 2026, and also allow cryptocurrency companies earn amid supply shortage. (more…)
In the last 70 years, Kyrgyzstan has lost 16 per cent of its glaciers. It poses a food insecurity risk not only to the country, but also at the regional level.
In the last 30-40 years, the world, particularly, Kyrgyzstan, has faced the increase in temperature. It leads to increased evaporation, and hence to soil drought. The problem of water regulation at distant pastures and farming lands can be solved by artificial glaciers.
In Kyrgyzstan, nearly 65 per cent of villages are undersupplied with clean drinking water. Authorities are determined to solve the problem by 2026, which is taken sceptically by people as this is not their first promise. Moreover, one third of the amount required to implement the programme still needs to be raised. (more…)
Criminal cases decried as attempts to intimidate and impose censorship.
Despite significant changes and removal of obstacles to access to opioid analgesics, palliative care in Kyrgyzstan is still at an improper level. Experts specify a range of issues in this sphere, including low level of knowledge among medical workers and lack of medications within reach.
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Consequences for women of Kyrgyzstan who had served sentence prove to be dramatic. Almost in all cases, they have to face misunderstanding, distrust and stigmatisation from others.