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The return of many male migrant laborers from Russia during the pandemic seems to have compounded the crisis.

The authorities evidently fear this localized discontent could escalate into something more serious.

An airport swindle offers an illuminating peek at the Fergana Valley's economy and fraught ethnic politics.

Several of the tunnels start near a vast bazaar in southern Kyrgyzstan.

Locals say authorities are arbitrarily seizing their homes to make way for a road from China.

Bad weather and a Russian export ban have set Kyrgyzstan up for another lean year.

Fraudsters preying on rural migrants seem to be operating in a legal vacuum.

It is Yakyn Inkar’s very apolitical and rejectionist nature that may be alarming authorities more than anything.

Perennially unstable Kyrgyzstan is seeing a surge of unemployed young men return from Russia.

Authorities in the two countries’ distant capitals show little interest in the festering situation until there is bloodshed.

Ethnic intolerance has surfaced in an increasingly vicious political battle.

Politicians in Moscow claim to be concerned that Russian-speaking citizens may be facing intimidation and aggression in Kyrgyzstan – a fact that officials in Bishkek deny.

Climate change can be blamed for some of the troubles facing Kyrgyz farmers, but the immediate problem is money.

Many of the affected families were caught up in the ethnic unrest that tore through Osh in June 2010. This story has roots in those troubles.