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On September 28, an authorised protest of Kazakhstan feminists was held in Almaty. This was the first authorised protest action after the message of President Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev to the people of the country, in which he told to permit peaceful protests.
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500 cases of torture in penal colonies were registered in the last decade in Kazakhstan, and 2,026 cases were dismissed.
Kyrgyzstan has no official statistics regarding children who attend game clubs instead of school. However, psychologists and activists say parents seek their help to deal with the gaming addiction among schoolchildren.
For six months of 2019, over a thousand families of ethnic Kazakhs have moved back from China to their historical homeland.
Residents of border areas of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan are doomed to live in an atmosphere of onerous conflicts unless the leaders of the two countries have political will to finally settle this issue, according to experts.
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The government of Kyrgyzstan has suggested a taxation scheme for cryptocurrency mining. If it is approved, the virtual money mining will be legalised in the country. However, the suggested tax rate, according to experts, may discourage the miners.
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This year universities have extended only 110,095 quotas, while over a million of applicants have applied for universities.
Every year 26 cattle theft cases happen in the country and only half of them, at best, are being returned to the owners.
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Tajik bloggers, creators of the resonant video about sex workers in Dushanbe, say they did not think about the consequences. Now they are waiting for the trial, and experts say that its result may lead to increasing self-censorship among bloggers.
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The only mosque of the Twelver Shiites of Kyrgyzstan is located in Bishkek.