As I queue to cast my vote at a local polling station in Bishkek, the Kyrgyz capital, I am all eyes and ears. I hope to catch anything irregular on…
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Part of the ‘Retreating Rights’ publication series.
Part of the ‘Retreating Rights’ publication series.
Part of the ‘Finding Britain’s role in a changing world’ publication series.
This is the second publication produced under the FPC’s ‘Unsafe for Scrutiny’ project.
This virtual event will discuss the findings of an upcoming Foreign Policy Centre publication entitled Retreating Rights: Examining the pressure on human rights in Kyrgyzstan. The speed, scope and outcome of the political upheaval following the October 2020 Parliamentary elections may have shocked the watching world, but the flaws and fragility in Kyrgyzstan political system had been clear for some time. This event and new publication will seek to provide ...
More infoDr. Aijan Sharshenova, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at OSCE Academy
Begaim Usenova, Director of Media Policy Institute
Shirin Aitmatova, Founder of UMUT 2020
Dr Aksana Ismailbekova, Postdoctoral Researcher at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient
Chair: Adam Hug, Director, Foreign Policy Centre
The event will take place on Zoom.
The FPC is working again with the SEPAD (Sectarianism, Proxies and De-sectarianisation) project at the Richardson Institute for Peace at Lancaster University on a series of virtual public seminars focused on peacebuilding in Lebanon, Bosnia, Syria and Yemen. The project will address each country situation individually but it will seek to learn from the experiences of Lebanon and Bosnia (both the successes and ongoing/growing problems) in terms of power sharing and ...
More infoMaysaa Shuja Al-deen, Non-resident Fellow at the Sana’a Center for Strategic Studies
Professor Simon Mabon, Director of the SEPAD project
Nadwa Al-Dawsari, Non-resident Scholar at the Middle East Institute
Kate Nevens, Non-resident Consultant with the Yemen Policy Center
Chair: Wayne David MP, Shadow Minister for the Middle East and North Africa
The event will take place on Zoom.
Kyrgyzstan has just experienced another period of rapid and chaotic change, the third time the country has overthrown an incumbent President in the last 15 years. This publication shows how…
Introduction: Examining the pressure on human rights in Kyrgyzstan This publication, Retreating Rights, is an attempt to take stock of another period of rapid and chaotic change in Kyrgyzstan,…
On October 5th 2020, several thousand Kyrgyz citizens poured in the main square of the capital Bishkek to denounce fraudulent elections. By the late evening of that day, this unexpected…
As I queue to cast my vote at a local polling station in Bishkek, the Kyrgyz capital, I am all eyes and ears. I hope to catch anything irregular on…
Nationalist populism and online political mobilisation The rising illiberal populism that imperils even established democracies including the US, Brazil, the UK, Turkey, and many European countries, has become a favourite…
On the morning of October 6th 2020, Sadyr Japarov was in jail, serving an 11-year sentence for kidnapping the Governor of Kyrgyzstan’s Issyk Kul region. Ten days later Japarov was…
Kyrgyzstan has been nation-building for the last 30 years and it is seen as one of the most politically dynamic post-soviet countries. Kyrgyzstan has an ethnically diverse population, with minorities…
Following the parliamentary elections in Kyrgyzstan on October 4th 2020, a coup d'état took place on October 5th as a result of popular discontent with the results of parliamentary elections.…
COVID-19’s impact on the global community revealed many inefficiencies in how the countries responded to the spread of the pandemic across borders. While some states have achieved promising results, others…
Fighting corruption ad nauseam For more than a quarter of a century, a number of Kyrgyz politicians have been using democracy as an ideological play to bamboozle and win the…
You may struggle to find a country that praises civil society sector and persecutes it simultaneously as much as Kyrgyzstan; where non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are needed most to cover up…
The media system of Kyrgyzstan Andrei Richter, now the Director of the OSCE Office of the Representative on Freedom of the Media, categorises the key commonalities in the media systems of…
In November 2019, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Radio Azattyk, the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and its Kyrgyz member centre, Kloop.kg, published their joint investigation into widespread corruption…
Summary It has been more than two decades since the Kyrgyz Republic became independent. At that time, Kyrgyzstan had an ambitious agenda to become a ‘Switzerland’ of Central Asia and…
Resolving the situation This Retreating Rights publication has tried to set out the scale of the challenges facing Kyrgyzstan today. The people of Kyrgyzstan have seen the same movie several…