On January 17, a court in Kaskelen, a city east of Almaty, found six police officers guilty of abuse of power and the torture of dozens of foreigners – including Kyrgyz jazz musician Vikram Ruzakhunov – during the hectic and deadly Qandy Qantar, Kazakhstan’s bloody January 2022. In early JanuaryContinue Reading
On December 25, 2024, Azerbaijan Airlines flight 8432 crashed, killing 38 people. Preliminary reports suggest the plane was shot at by Russian air defenses, forcing it to deviate from its planned flight path from Baku to Grozny. The aircraft limped across the Caspian Sea and crashed short of a runwayContinue Reading
Two years after signing a roadmap on the construction of the Kambarata-1 hydropower plant, energy ministers from Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan gathered in Tashkent with World Bank officials for a roundtable discussion on the project. According to Uzbek media outlet Daryo.uz, Uzbek Energy Minister Jurabek Mirzamahmudov hailed the project, statingContinue Reading
