News Kyrgyzstan Social: How Kyrgyz social media backed an imprisoned politician’s meteoric rise to power
Kyrgyzstan’s recent parliamentary elections were marked by massive vote-buying and fraud, creating mass-scale contention and protests. Amid the resulting violence, chaos and power vacuum, President ...
News Kyrgyzstan Social: New Wave Authoritarianism in Kyrgyzstan
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the West had high hopes for the success of democracy in Central Asia. Central Asian leaders, although exhibiting many classic authoritarian features, ...
News Kyrgyzstan Social: Kyrgyzstan’s Social Democrats Under Pressure
Kyrgyzstan’s Social Democrats are being subjected to “political terror,” prominent party member Kadyr Atambayev said in a Facebook post after learning that fellow member Zhanna Samysheva had been ...
News Kyrgyzstan Social: The Enduring Difficulty of Settling the Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan Border
Of the 971 kilometers that make up the border between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan ... actors can disrupt the delicate balance of social and economic life on the border. Although many initiatives ...
News Kyrgyzstan Social: Court decision in Kyrgyzstan seizes property of former president's TV channel
The leader of the largest parliamentary party of social democrats in Kyrgyzstan, Atambayev, transferred power to his successor and closest ally Sooronbai Jeenbekov in 2017 as a result of the ...
News Kyrgyzstan Social: Can Quotas Fix Gender Disparity in Kyrgyzstan’s Politics?
Social science research offers evidence for ... major challenge to achieving a meaningful impact with gender quotas. In Kyrgyzstan, gender quotas have been criticized because of the time frame ...
News Kyrgyzstan Social: Atambayev Loses Immunity, Supporters Gather to Resist
Kyrgyzstan is no stranger to tumultuous politics ... But his successor, hand-picked from the party Atambayev built — the Social Democratic Party (SDPK) — quickly made clear he was not simply ...
News Kyrgyzstan Social: Xi’s visit to Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan stresses regional security
Li Yongquan, dean of the school of international relations at the University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said that "Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan are among the earliest supporters of the Belt ...
