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Complaints that communal bodies exclude female voices from organisation roles. (more…)
In surprise move, previously isolated state calls for tighter regional integration. (more…)
Students and parents are concerned with the messages that the UCA campus based in Khorog has not been certified for educational activity. (more…)
Some car owners have complained that on the trunk road to the main touristic zone patrol police officers extort money for alleged alcohol content in the body, although some drivers said they didn’t drink any alcohol. The patrol police department of the Directorate of Internal Affairs for Issyk Kul oblast performs internal investigation following these complaints. (more…)
“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…)
“The Islamic community should be intellectually mature in terms of religiosity, and then it would be able to generate and produce decent and honest people. And when our society is in its embryonic state, we, unfortunately, produce and generate such politicians. As long as people remain the same, the community will never change,” Aman Saliev, an expert at the Institute for Strategic Analysis and Forecasting at the Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University (KRSU), said in an interview to cabar.asia. (more…)
Experts say that jailing women has far-reaching societal repercussions. The day starts early at Kyrgyzstan’s only women’s prison. Around 300 inmates are woken at 6.30am at the facility in Stepnoe, a village close to Bishkek. (more…)
Teenagers are left traumatised, with little recourse to official complaint. (more…)