BISHKEK — On April 18, while speaking to his country’s parliament, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan acknowledged Azerbaijan’s sovereignty over Nagorno-Karabakh, the disputed province at the heart of a protracted conflict between the two countries.

BISHKEK  —  Bishkek’s residents have been confronted with an unusual sight these past few weeks: the streets of Kyrgyzstan’s capital teeming with tens of thousands of educated men with European features: Russian citizens fleeing President Vladimir Putin’s “partial mobil

BISHKEK  —  Earlier this summer, protests erupted in Uzbekistan’s autonomous Republic of Karakalpakstan after the government announced plans to strip the region of its constitutional status.

BISHKEK — I still have vivid memories of my first trip to Turkey in 1993. After the Soviet Union’s collapse two years previously, we Kyrgyz gained access to a world we had hitherto only imagined. We all had Turkish relatives somewhere in the West with whom we had lost contact.

BISHKEK — The days and nights following the Taliban’s capture of Kabul and the collapse of the Afghan government have been remarkably calm. Most shops and businesses are closed. Ordinary Afghans are hiding in their homes.

BISHKEK — On July 2, the US military handed control of the vast Bagram Air Base to the Afghan government.

BISHKEK — For the first time in centuries, there is an opportunity to connect central and south Asia via modern transport and energy corridors through Afghanistan.

BISHKEK — After staging three revolutions in two decades, one could argue that the people of Kyrgyzstan have accumulated unique knowledge of how it is done.