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Former US and Kazakh presidents, Donald Trump and Nursultan Nazarbayev, at the joint press statements during Nazarbayev's visit to Washington D.C. in 2018. Screenshot from the video “President Trump Participates in Joint Press Statements with President Nursultan Nazarbayev” from the Trump White House Archived YouTube channel. Fair use. In June, George Krol, a former US ambassador to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, shared his memories of working in these two Central Asian countries, emphasizing his interactions with these states’ first presidents. In the memoir titled “A tale of two first presidents...
Global Voices
El Banco Nacional de la República Kirguisa (NBKR) ha publicado un proyecto de ley sobre la creación de la moneda digital del banco central (CBDC) som kirguís. La legislación se presenta en forma de enmiendas, siendo la Ley Constitucional de la República Kirguisa sobre el Banco Nacional de la República Kirguisa y la Ley sobre el Sistema de Pagos de la República Kirguisa las que requieren más cambios. 12 compañías presentaron propuestas en marzo para probar un prototipo de som digital en un entorno sandbox. El equipo de proyecto del NBKR produjo una versión demo de una moneda digital del banco c...
Cointelegraph ES
The National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic (NBKR) has released draft legislation on the creation of a Kyrgystani som central bank digital currency (CBDC). The legislation is all in the form of amendments, with the Constitutional Law of the Kyrgyz Republic on the National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic and the Law on the Payment System of the Kyrgyz Republic needing the most changes. 12 companies submitted proposals in March for testing a digital som prototype in a sandbox environment. The NBKR project team produced a demo version of a som CBDC the following month on the blockchain of an unnamed app...
Cointelegraph
The foreign agent laws adopted this year by Georgia and Kyrgyzstan are not fueling mounting authoritarianism and crony rule. They are the result of it. Critics of the countries’ regimes derisively allude to the legislation cracking down on nongovernmental organizations that receive funds from abroad as “Russian laws.” This is only half true. Russia’s draconian law, passed in 2012 and tightened since, brands organizations and individuals who receive money from abroad as “foreign agents” as a way of cracking down on dissent. The fines and bureaucratic obstacles that come with the label have forc...
Kyiv Independent (UK)
The foreign agent laws adopted this year by Georgia and Kyrgyzstan are not fueling mounting authoritarianism and crony rule. They are the result of it. Critics of the countries’ regimes derisively allude to the legislation cracking down on nongovernmental organizations that receive funds from abroad as “Russian laws.” This is only half true. Russia’s draconian law, passed in 2012 and tightened since, brands organizations and individuals who receive money from abroad as “foreign agents” as a way of cracking down on dissent. The fines and bureaucratic obstacles that come with the label have forc...
Kyiv Independent (CA)
The foreign agent laws adopted this year by Georgia and Kyrgyzstan are not fueling mounting authoritarianism and crony rule. They are the result of it. Critics of the countries’ regimes derisively allude to the legislation cracking down on nongovernmental organizations that receive funds from abroad as “Russian laws.” This is only half true. Russia’s draconian law, passed in 2012 and tightened since, brands organizations and individuals who receive money from abroad as “foreign agents” as a way of cracking down on dissent. The fines and bureaucratic obstacles that come with the label have forc...
Kyiv Independent
The Kyrgyzstan's president's niece Lazzat Nurkojoeva standing in front of the helicopter that took her to her engagement ceremony. Screenshot from the video “Лазат Нуркожоеванын сүйүктүү колун сурады” from Жашоо YouTube channel. Fair use. On June 26, Kyrgyzstan’s president Sadyr Japarov issued a public apology for the lavish engagement ceremony involving his niece Lazzat Nurkojoeva and her fiancé, which drew a lot of criticism from the public. On June 24, Nurkojoeva posted a video and photos of the engagement ceremony on her Instagram page, in which the couple arrived at an undisclosed locatio...
Global Voices
Both Kyrgyzstan and Malaysia played to a 1-1 draw in their 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifying match on Thursday at the Dolen Omurzakov Stadium in Bishkek, which left the former's hopes of qualifying out of Group D well and truly alive while the latter's saw their own World Cup hopes diminish further. Kyrgyzstan head coach Stefan Tarkovic started Joel Kojo as the lead striker, with Kairat Zhyrgalbek returning to the right flank. Malaysia’s Kim Pan-gon handed a debut to Safwan Mazlan, while Dion Cools operated on the right. Early exchanges saw both teams taking shots, with Zhyrgalbek attempting from...
Football Tribe Asia
Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaking to journalists from Central Asia. Screenshot from the video “Владимир Зеленский пообщался с представителями СМИ Центральной Азии. Главные темы разговора” from the Freedom. Live YouTube channel. Fair use. On May 24, Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy gave his first interview to journalists from Central Asia in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. The interview took place at the destroyed printing house, which had been hit by a Russian missile a day earlier. Journalists and activists from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan requested Zel...
Global Voices
Los Angeles (AFP) - A US man who tried to breed enormous hybrid sheep using genetic material from endangered animals so he could sell them to trophy hunting ranches faces jail time after pleading guilty to wildlife crimes on Tuesday. Arthur Schubarth, 80, illegally imported parts of the world's largest species of sheep from Kyrgyzstan, which he used to create cloned embryos in the United States. The resulting fetuses were then implanted in ewes on his Montana ranch, resulting in the birth of a genetically pure Marco Polo argali, an endangered species that can weigh more than 300 pounds (135 ki...
AFP
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