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The government is betraying signs of not knowing quite how to run a state of emergency – especially one instated to defend a population against an invisible virus.

There are six confirmed cases to date. All returned from Mecca.

Police detained marchers, but not attackers.

Organizers are skeptical about the official reason.

Japarov has appealed to the president for clemency.

The number of eligible voters in Osh has risen by 25 percent since the start of the year.

Some wonder if this is a pre-election gambit.

Green Card lottery winners were making final preparations for departure to the U.S. Then the Trump administration announced a new travel ban.

The local hospital provided first aid, but before long, groups of aggressive men turned up, looking for Dungans. Thousands fled over the nearby border to Kyrgyzstan.

The Kara-Suu district chief claims he has begged to be sent less money.

The Eurasian Economic Union was supposed to ease cross-border trade. Truck drivers waiting in dayslong lines say it has made the border checks worse.

Stories of untrammeled graft have spurred action – against the journalists investigating and activists calling for change, not the alleged criminals.

Alarm is growing that the government's critics will face mounting intimidation.

News websites came under attack on the eve of the demonstration.

Like many of Kyrgyzstan’s ills, the bad air too is partly rooted in the country’s culture of corruption.

The alleged bribe-givers were never compelled to testify.

An event intended to raise discussion about women's issues was labelled a dangerous foreign influence.

Frustration has simmered since journalists uncovered multibillion-dollar smuggling operations defrauding the state of vast amounts of revenue.

Agriculture accounts for 15 percent of the Kyrgyz economy. Yet the lack of coordination means many farmers are barely able to survive, let alone export anything.

The taboo that lingers over sexual violence will be hard to erase.

Sarkarbayev met with notorious gangster Jengo in a jail in 2015.

Online disinformation is manipulating regional divisions.

The two men involved are known to be associates of the powerbroker.

Land swaps or giveaways have historically proved politically risky in Kyrgyzstan. The government is, accordingly, stressing what it is calling advantageous terms.

The officer who negotiated the end to a bloody standoff with Kyrgyzstan’s former president is now being held for abuse of office. The flimsy evidence suggests the government needed a fall guy.