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Akmatova, left, speaking at the December 8 briefing. (Photo: Government handout)

Kyrgyzstan: Only 15 percent of infected healthcare workers compensated

Medics say they are actively discouraged from seeking the compensation.
Ayzirek Imanaliyeva Dec 8, 2020
Usenbayev, left, speaking at the briefing. (Photo: Government Telegram feed)

Kyrgyzstan: Authorities mulling return to lockdowns

Batken has already reimposed restrictions.
Ayzirek Imanaliyeva Sep 29, 2020
Wang Yi poses for a photo with Kyrgyz president Sooronbai Jeenbekov. (Photo: Kyrgyz presidential administration)

Central Asia: Belt and Road takes back seat in Chinese envoy’s tour

Beijing is eager to show solidarity as the coronavirus pandemic rumbles on.
Chris Rickleton Sep 16, 2020
back to school

Armenian kids head back to school despite smoldering COVID-19 outbreak

Armenia is taking a faster route to in-person classes than its Caucasus neighbors, but it is adopting a number of precautions to make sure that schools don’t spread the virus.
Ani Mejlumyan Sep 15, 2020
Issyk-Kul shore

Kyrgyzstan: COVID-19 body blow leaves Issyk-Kul tourism operators reeling

The tourist season was a disaster, with visitors down almost 90 percent. The taxman has not been sympathetic.
Ayzirek Imanaliyeva, Photos by Danil Usmanov Sep 11, 2020
Not sick? Cool: A view of Issyk-Kul that Kazahk tourists are being denied, for now. (Photo: Matthias Buehler/Flickr)

Kyrgyzstan opens up to Kazakhstan’s tourists. In theory

Kyrgyz officials have drawn up a list of 31 countries from which people can visit.
Almaz Kumenov Aug 24, 2020
USAID/EU aid to Abkhazia

Abkhazia calls for volunteers to help with COVID outbreak

Many in the territory blame the rising numbers of coronavirus cases on the authorities’ decision to open up to Russian tourists.
Joshua Kucera Aug 19, 2020
Bottles of dog fat in a Bishkek market accompanied by a request for live dogs (photos: Eurasianet)

Fighting COVID in Kyrgyzstan: Dog fat, ginger and bloodletting

Some of the purported cures spreading on social media are dangerous.
Ayzirek Imanaliyeva Aug 13, 2020
Abkhazia booth

Russian tourists flood into newly reopened Abkhazia

The territory's public health officials have warned against opening up to tourism, and the arrival of tourists has coincided with a spike in the number of COVID-19 cases.
Joshua Kucera Aug 11, 2020
A Bishkek cemetery with a dedicated area for those who died of COVID-19 (All photos by Danil Usmanov)

Watching Kyrgyzstan’s coronavirus crisis: A photographer’s journal

Eurasianet’s Kyrgyzstan-based photojournalist Danil Usmanov has for weeks been watching his country’s unfolding coronavirus crisis. In this essay, he describes some of his observations.
Danil Usmanov Jul 31, 2020
Gyumri

Armenia sees steady decrease in COVID cases

The prime minister said the once heavily infected country can now “break the back” of the novel coronavirus.
Ani Mejlumyan Jul 30, 2020
Customers aren’t spending like they used to at the reopened Calumet bar in central Yerevan. (photos: Ani Mejlumyan)

After reopening, Armenian economy continues to struggle

“It was the pandemic that hit the economy hard, not the lockdown itself.”
Ani Mejlumyan Jul 30, 2020

Women are being forced to give birth ‘alone’, in post-lockdown Armenia and Ukraine

Across Eurasia, women have reported mistreatment that defies World Health Organization guidelines – and national policies.
Ani Hovhannisyan, Tetiana Kozak Jul 18, 2020
Volunteers Nurlis Madimkulov and Almanbet Yrysaliev give oxygen from a pillow to an elderly man whose blood saturation decreased and had been refused admission to a hospital.

Kyrgyzstan: Volunteers play heroic role in battle against COVID-19

On top of the exhausting work, stresses are compounded by having to reject heartbreaking requests.
Ayzirek Imanaliyeva, Photos by Danil Usmanov Jul 17, 2020
A makeshift hospital in Kyrgyzstan's capital

Pneumonia fudge hiding scale of Central Asia's coronavirus emergency

Doctors in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan are growing angry at what they see as little more than a face-saving, statistical trick.
Almaz Kumenov, Ayzirek Imanaliyeva Jul 16, 2020

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