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Kyrgyzstan’s Last Hidden Valley: Why Jyrgalan Is Central Asia’s Best-Kept Hiking Secret
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July 27, 2025
Jyrgalan village in the summer. Photo courtesy of Destination Jyrgalan Valley Public Association My lower back flinched, anticipating the next craterous pothole along the dirt road leading to Jyrgalan. The driver, perched on a comically large seat...
Pakistan and Kyrgyzstan pledge to boost trade to $100 million
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July 28, 2025
Pakistan and Kyrgyzstan agreed to increase their bilateral trade volume to $100 million. This was decided during the fifth session of their Inter-Governmental Commission on Trade, Economic, and Scientific Cooperation. Trade between the two...
Anniversary of Kyrgyzstan-Russia alliance: Russian Ambassador gives interview
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July 28, 2025
July 27 marked 25 years since the signing of the Declaration of Eternal Friendship, Alliance and Partnership between Kyrgyzstan and Russia. On the eve of this date, Russian Ambassador to the Kyrgyz Republic Sergei Vakunov gave an interview to...
Third round of university admissions begins in Kyrgyzstan
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July 28, 2025
10:43, 28 July 2025, Bishkek - 24.kg news agency , by Anastasia BENGARD 10:43, 28 July 2025, Bishkek - 24.kg news agency , by Anastasia BENGARD The third round of the university admissions campaign began in Kyrgyzstan today, July 28. Enrollment is...
From green paradise to desert: Bishkek Botanical Garden torn up and sunburned
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July 28, 2025
A video posted on social media by user Rashid Braun has gained tens of thousands of views and sparked public outrage. The footage contrasts two videos of the same Botanical Garden in southern Bishkek, filmed a year apart: May 2024 and July 2025....
Pakistan and Kyrgyzstan agree to enhance trade volume up to $100m
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July 28, 2025
Pakistan and Kyrgyzstan reaffirmed an agreement to enhance their bilateral trade volume up to $100 million, at a session of a Pakistan-Kyrgyzstan inter-governmental commission on Monday. Pakistan and the Kyrgyz Republic share longstanding...
99% of Interfaith Marriage Bans Found in Muslim Nations
Patheos
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July 27, 2025
Using freedom of interfaith marriage as an indicator of religious pluralism, this study reveals that 99% of legal restrictions on interfaith unions are imposed by Islamic countries. Specifically, 32 out of 53 Muslim-majority countries (60.4%)...
Kyrgyzstan to establish National Polo Federation
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July 25, 2025
10:58, 25 July 2025, Bishkek - 24.kg news agency , by Tilebaldy TUKUEVA 10:58, 25 July 2025, Bishkek - 24.kg news agency , by Tilebaldy TUKUEVA Kyrgyzstan will soon have its own National Polo Federation. The Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of...
Bishkek school issues diplomas to four students who were not present during classes for a year
AKIpress News Agency
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Bishkek school issues diplomas to four students who were not present during classes for a year AKIPRESS.COM - The administration of school No. 29 in Bishkek illegally issued certificates of secondary general education. It was established that four...
Kyrgyzstan introduces uniform minimum tuition fees for foreign medical students
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July 23, 2025
15:20, 23 July 2025, Bishkek - 24.kg news agency , by Turdubek ALYMBAEV 15:20, 23 July 2025, Bishkek - 24.kg news agency , by Turdubek ALYMBAEV The Cabinet of Ministers of Kyrgyzstan has approved amendments to the regulations governing the setting...
Kyrgyzstan to open school for ethnic Kyrgyz in Mongolia
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AKIPRESS.COM - Kyrgyzstan will open a school for ethnic Kyrgyz in Mongolia. This idea was expressed during the state visit of President of Mongolia Khurelsukh Ukhnaa to Kyrgyzstan. Ethnic Kyrgyz have long lived in Mongolia, but were registered as...
2 high school students from Kyrgyzstan win bronze medals at International Physics Olympiad in Paris
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2 high school students from Kyrgyzstan win bronze medals at International Physics Olympiad in Paris AKIPRESS.COM - Kyrgyz students achieved remarkable success at the International Physics Olympiad (IPhO 2025) held in Paris, France, from July 17 to...
‘Jaish al-Adl’ terrorist group as a proxy of CIA and Mossad to destabilize Iran
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By Yousef Ramazani Iran’s judiciary chief, Gholamhossein Mohseni Eje’,i on Monday condemned the terrorist attack at a courthouse in southeastern Iran by the "Jaish al-Adl" terrorist group, asserting that such acts of violence are "undoubtedly...
Making a Felt Rug in Kyrgyzstan
Cosmonaut Magazine
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When making a felt rug in Kyrgyzstan, you don’t begin with sheep. You start with sedge grass. Women venture into the fields and pluck the reeds while around them goats and horses browse the fields and snowy mountains sprawl toward the sky. Learned...
China's top legislator eyes more practical cooperation with Kyrgyzstan
Xinhua News Agency
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BISHKEK, July 25 (Xinhua) -- China's top legislator Zhao Leji expressed readiness to further boost practical cooperation with Kyrgyzstan during an official goodwill visit from Wednesday to Thursday. Zhao, chairman of the National People's Congress...
President Japarov signs orders on Kyrgyz citizenship
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AKIPRESS.COM - President Sadyr Japarov has signed orders concerning acquisition of citizenship, renunciation of citizenship, and loss of citizenship of Kyrgyzstan. The majority of those who gained citizenship are ethnic Kyrgyz returning to their...
Results of transition to 12-year education will be in 15 years — ministry
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July 24, 2025
18:57, 24 July 2025, Bishkek - 24.kg news agency , by Anastasia BENGARD 18:57, 24 July 2025, Bishkek - 24.kg news agency , by Anastasia BENGARD The results of the transition to 12-year education will be visible in 15 years. The Minister of...
Defying Putin’s 21st century gulag: How anti-war activists are using court to oppose Russia’s war on Ukraine
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July 24, 2025
Simon Pirani is an historian, activist and energy researcher, who has written extensively on Russia and Ukraine, including on this blog peoplenature.org. Pirani gave the following speech, in which he discusses his forthcoming book, Voices against...
Kyrgyzstan and China to expand academic exchange and launch new R&D projects
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July 21, 2025
17:23, 21 July 2025, Bishkek - 24.kg news agency , by Aibek SULTANOV 17:23, 21 July 2025, Bishkek - 24.kg news agency , by Aibek SULTANOV The second meeting of the Kyrgyz-Chinese Commission on Scientific and Technical Cooperation was held in...
Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia move towards comprehensive partnership
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July 21, 2025
17:32, 21 July 2025, Bishkek - 24.kg news agency , by Aibek SULTANOV 17:32, 21 July 2025, Bishkek - 24.kg news agency , by Aibek SULTANOV President of the Kyrgyz Republic Sadyr Japarov made a statement for the media following talks with Mongolian...