Tag Archives: Kyrgyzstan

More protests in Kyrgyzstan over gold mine

JUNE 27 2013 (The Conway Bulletin) — Roughly 500 people protested near the Kumtor gold mine in east Kyrgyzstan, media reported, the latest in a series of protests against the Canadian owners of the mine. The protesters want the mine nationalised. Toronto-listed Centerra Gold owns Kumtor, the biggest industrial project in Kyrgyzstan. The Kyrgyz government owns a third of Centerra Gold.

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(News report from Issue No. 141, published on July 1 2013)

Kyrgyzstan produces historical movie

JUNE 25 2013 (The Conway Bulletin) — Following its neighbour Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan will produce a historical film promoting its national values, media reported. The film called “Queen of the mountains” will cost $1.5m and will tell the story of a Kyrgyz noblewoman who saves her nation from Russian imperial forces in the 1870s.

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(News report from Issue No. 141, published on July 1 2013)

Russia sends military aid to Kyrgyzstan

JUNE 25 2013 (The Conway Bulletin) — Russia will start sending military aid and kit to Kyrgyzstan from 2014, Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported quoting Sergei Shoigu, Russia’s defence minister. Accepting Russian military aid highlights a shift in Kyrgyzstan’s allegiance from the US. The US is closing its air base outside Bishkek next year.

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(News report from Issue No. 141, published on July 1 2013)

US airbase in Kyrgyzstan to be shut

JUNE 20 2013 (The Conway Bulletin) — Kyrgyzstan’s parliament voted to close a US airbase outside Bishkek by July 2014. Kyrgyzstan has threatened to close the airbase for years but the decision will still irritate the US ahead of a planned military withdrawal from Afghanistan through Central Asia in 2014.

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(News report from Issue No. 140, published on June 24 2013)

HRW warns of deportations to Kyrgyzstan

JUNE 13 2013 (The Conway Bulletin) — Human Rights Watch (HRW) said three Uzbek men Kyrgyzstan wanted extradited from Russia may be tortured if they are handed over to the Kyrgyz authorities. The Kyrgyz authorities want to question the men over their roles in ethnic fighting in the south of the country in June 2010.

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(News report from Issue No. 139, published on June 17 2013)

Kumtor production resumes in Kyrgyzstan

JUNE 5 2013 (The Conway Bulletin) — Production resumed at the Kumtor gold mine in Kyrgyzstan after the authorities lifted a state of emergency. Protesters demanding more benefits from the mine had blockaded the site and clashed with police. The Kyrgyz government and Toronto-listed Centerra Gold, which owns the mine, put a Sept. 10 deadline on talks for a new Kumtor ownership deal.

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(News report from Issue No. 138, published on June 10 2013)

Rapists to be castrated in Kyrgyzstan

JUNE 6 2013 (The Conway Bulletin) — The Kyrgyz parliament is considering adopting a law to chemically castrate convicted paedophiles and rapists once they have left prison, media reported. A handful of countries, including Russia and some parts of Europe, already inject rapists with a chemical that reduces their testosterone levels.

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(News report from Issue No. 138, published on June 10 2013)

Emergency in Kyrgyzstan after Kumtor protest

MAY 31 2013 (The Conway Bulletin) — The Kyrgyz authorities declared a state of emergency around the Kumtor gold mine in the east of the country after thousands of protesters demanding more financial benefits clashed with police. The Kumtor gold mine, Kyrgyzstan’s biggest industrial project, is owned by Toronto-listed Centerra Gold. The Kyrgyz government owns a 33% stake in Centerra Gold.

(News report from Issue No. 137, published on June 3 2013)

Kyrgyzstan to join Customs Union

MAY 29 2013 (The Conway Bulletin) — At a meeting of the Russia-led Eurasian Customs Union in Astana, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev confirmed that Kyrgyzstan would join the group by 2015. Kyrgyzstan has been talking about joining the union, which includes Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus, for the past year. Ukraine has been granted observer status.

(News report from Issue No. 137, published on June 3 2013)

US drops Kyrgyz corruption case

MAY 10 2013 (The Conway Bulletin) — Much to the irritation of the Kyrgyz authorities, prosecutors in the US dropped a fraud case against Maxim Bakiyev, son of the ousted former president of Kyrgyzstan, Kurmanbek Bakiyev. The US authorities wanted to extradite Mr Bakiyev from London where he has lived since a 2010 coup in Kyrgyzstan. The Kyrgyz authorities accuse Mr Bakiyev of corruption.

(News report from Issue No. 135, published on May 20 2013)