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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 » Life: More Than Just Grains of Rice: Shedding Light on Community and Precarity in Kyrgyzstan’s Batken
Plov being served in a market in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Credit: Catherine Putz A new exhibition at Kyrgyzstan’s National Museum of Art in Bishkek takes on a seemingly quotidian subject: rice. The ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Batken » Life: Kyrgyzstan: A diary from Batken at a time of violence
Although Batken is a city on paper, you can count the number of streets on your fingers. In the past 20 years, only one new school has been built here, locals say. It is a small and sleepy corner of ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Batken » Life: Hope and Fear on the Kyrgyz-Tajik Border
On January 28, the president of Kyrgyzstan, Sadyr Japarov, took questions from reporters on the evolving negotiations delimiting the border between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. As a problem that has ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Batken » Life: Kyrgyzstan Says Border With Tajikistan Can Reopen 'Gradually' After Delimitation Work
BATKEN, Kyrgyzstan -- Authorities in Kyrgyzstan’s southern region of Batken say the border with Tajikistan, shut down more than two years ago following a deadly standoff, can "gradually reopen" after ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Batken » Life: Can the internet save traditional rug-making in Kyrgyzstan?
Women in the village of Bayl say their families have been making rugs for centuries, at least. But with growing access to cheap factory-made rugs in the post-Soviet era, not as many people in ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Batken » Life: 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 » Life: 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 » Life: Construction of major wholesale commercial complex underway in Batken
The regional administration inspected the progress of a wholesale commercial complex currently under construction in the administrative center of Batken ...