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Kazakhstan proving more adept at dodging blame than Kyrgyzstan.

Media have been warned against giving anti-war Russians a platform.

Attention will now turn to the delicate process of enabling children to readapt to normal civilian life.

The surviving popularity of the komuz as a living instrument, rather than a museum artifact, and the flourishing tradition of Kyrgyz folk music is in no small way thanks to Malik Alikeyev, who died on January 17.

What started off as a genuine and timely reform has been butchered by a lack of analysis and planning, leaving hundreds of schools without principals.

The pains of the education system are a vivid testament to the challenges ahead.

Kyrgyzstan is trying to combat radicalism by teaching religious history in schools. Easier said than done.

Any success adapting this first group of children could represent a lifeline for the estimated 400 Kyrgyzstani women and children still languishing in northeast Syria.

Activists are bewildered by how the government has chosen to revisit the events of 2010 in this way.

Taking part in foreign conflicts can be punished by up to eight years in prison.