COP-28 proved a fruitful event for the promotion of green initiatives in Central Asia. EurasiaChat looked in its latest outing at how seriously governments will be held to their promises.
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.
After seizing the country’s most profitable mine, Kyrgyzstan is using new regulations to drive out more private mining companies and place the bulk of the industry into the hands of a single state firm.