News Kyrgyzstan » Batken » Social: Kyrgyz-Tajik Border Agreement Hoped for in ‘Nearest Future’
Kyrgyz and Tajik officials are hopeful of completing border negotiations in the next two to three months. If an agreement is indeed reached, it will signal a major milestone in a long-running border ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Batken » Social: IDA Helps the Kyrgyz Republic’s Batken Rebuild after Conflict
In September 2022, conflict along the Kyrgyz Republic’s southwestern border caused significant damages to the country’s Batken region. A project supported by the International Development Association ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Batken » Social: 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 » Social: Kyrgyz Authorities Shut Down 32 Mosques, 5 Religious Schools In Southern Batken Region
Kyrgyzstan’s State Committee of National Security (UKMK) said on October 10 that it had closed 32 mosques and five religious schools in the southern region of Batken as a result of a special ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Batken » Social: Social media censorship and information manipulation after Sadyr Zhaparov's rise in Kyrgyzstan
After the government announced it was giving the Kempir-Abad water reservoir to Uzbekistan in a border deal agreement between two countries, several civil society activists, ex-politicians and acting ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Batken » Social: Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan: The terror and death of a fruitless border conflict
As people in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan pray and hope that the fighting along their border is over, thoughts will turn to the damage to life and property wrought in under a week of fighting. The ...
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