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BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 18. Road safety improvement works are underway on Lenin Street in the Kyrgyz Naryn city. This was announced in a statement by the press service of the Ministry of Transport ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Naryn » Social: Now With Neighbors' Support, Is Kyrgyzstan's Mega-Dam Dream Viable?
ALMATY -- A decade ago, the idea of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan agreeing to build a giant dam project together with their upstream neighbor Kyrgyzstan would have seemed unimaginable. Now, a road map ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Naryn » Social: A Remote Kyrgyz Village Fights for Survival as Mining Start Looms
Nestled in Kyrgyzstan’s picturesque mountains, along a hydropower reservoir on the Naryn River, the village of Kyzyl-Beyit strives to preserve itself. A view of the Kürspay reservoir, close to the ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Naryn » Social: Kyrgyz officials optimistic about China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway project
Kyrgyz officials remain upbeat about a much-anticipated China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway, but skeptics say odds are stacked against this mega project. The project, referred to as CKU, dates to 1997 ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Naryn » Social: Symbolic, but distant in the future: A dam on Kyrgyzstan’s Naryn river
This article was written by Paolo Sorbello for Vlast.kz. An edited version is published on Global Voices under a media partnership agreement. First envisioned during the Soviet era, the Kambar-Ata-1 ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Naryn » Social: Growing Up at Altitude: Kyrgyz Children Show Distinct Developmental Pattern
A new study of Kyrgyz schoolchildren finds that those raised at high altitude are shorter but have superior lung function, higher hemoglobin, and stronger grip strength than lowland peers, suggesting ...