Kyrgyzstan News » Batken News Kyrgyzstan » Batken: Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan: Is Batken Province Central Asia’s Next Flashpoint?
When the water flows in Batken Province, a hardscrabble patch of southwestern Kyrgyzstan, tempers flare. “The conflict area is well established,” said Taalay Ibraimov, a community leader in Batken’s ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Batken: Kyrgyzstan: Batken’s entrepreneurs struggle while officials weave lofty dreams
Adilet Adbuvaliyev’s industrial henhouse is perched on a scree-filled ledge above Kyrgyzstan’s most volatile spot. In the valley below, in a usually dormant corner of the Batken region, fighting ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Batken: Along Kyrgyzstan's Campaign Trail: Batken
Batken is Kyrgyzstan's southernmost province. It is also the poorest. Batken Province has a population, officially, of more than 400,000. Per capita, a higher proportion of people from Batken Province ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Batken: Kyrgyzstan declares state of emergency in Batken region bordering Tajikistan
Kyrgyzstan has declared a state of emergency in the Batken region bordering Tajikistan amid clashes, the Emergency Situations Ministry said. The decision was taken on late Friday to ensure the safety ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Batken: Kyrgyzstan develops road reconstruction project linking Batken and Osh regions
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan, May 16. A project to reconstruct the road connecting the Batken and Osh regions is currently under development, Trend reports via the Office of the Plenipotentiary Representative ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Batken: Kyrgyzstan’s Batken Region bordering Tajikistan to receive special status
The draft law on the status of the Batken Region says that the local government bodies will be given special powers to coordinate the activity of local institutions and cooperate with the law ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Batken: Kyrgyzstan boosts agriculture with new logistics center in Batken
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan, April 2. A new logistics and storage center for fruits and vegetables has opened in the city of Kadamjay in the Kyrgyzstan's Batken region, Trend reports via the country's ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Batken: The Summer Of 1999 And The IMU In Kyrgyzstan
Twenty years ago, militants from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) appeared in southern Kyrgyzstan and took several hostages while battling local forces. They were the biggest security ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Batken: Business and biodiversity benefit from Kyrgyz agroforestry systems
In the arid Kyrgyz border region of Batken, farmers grow agroforestry gardens of pomegranate, peach, apple, apricot, and cherry trees which provide shade and moisture to intercropped vegetables and ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Batken: Kyrgyzstan holds tourism fair in Batken
The second international forum on tourism development, Batken 2014, is taking place in the town of Batken on April 17. The second international forum on tourism development, Batken 2014, is taking ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Batken: State of emergency declared in Kyrgyzstan’s Batken border region - Emergencies Ministry
BISHKEK, September 17. /TASS/. A state of emergency has been declared in Kyrgyzstan’s Batken Region, where clashes with Tajikistan took place earlier, the Kyrgyz Emergencies Ministry said in a ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Batken: Kyrgyzstan: Incident in Batken Highlights Cross-border Ethnic Tensions
Passions flew high in the southwestern Kyrgyz city of Batken last week after local residents took a group of Tajik citizens hostage in an attempt to force the release of three locals detained in ...