Official ceremony of handing over of military-technical aid worth 4million yuan (over 7 million) soms to Kyrgyz border control office took place in Bishkek in the Kyrgyz Border Service Headquarters. The official awarding ceremony attended by the Zhang Yannian, the Chinese Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan.
According to the news agency “Kabar”, the aid includes 30 sets […]
A large cache of weapons has been found at an apartment rented by a U.S. citizen today, a press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported.
There were: 6 machine guns with optic sights and night-vision devices, 26 5.56 mm assault rifles, 2 12 cal Mossberg shotguns, 4 replacement barrels for machine gun, 2 […]
AKIPress refers to Russian news agency RIA Novosti that informs that the President Bakiev has made a statement that Kyrgyzstan will eventually insist that the United States removes its military airbase from the country. American airbase at Manas airport is located about 30 kilometers east of the capital and has about 1000 American troops. […]
According to 24.kg, Kyrgyzstan gets paid $17.5mln a year by the U.S. government for hosting the Manas airbase on its territory. This information was disclosed by Tajikan Kalimbetova, the Kyrgyz Minister of Finance during the extended session of the economy, budget and finance Committee in the Parliament. The US Gansi airbase is located […]
(I’m a new author on this site, and although it’s been a while since New Year’s, I hope you’ll forgive me for posting an earlier story about what that particular day was like when 2007 came to Batken…)
In a far-off corner of Kyrgyzstan, the Mayor is facing a strange dilemma. The guest list is looking […]
Speculation over the state of relations between the Kyrgyz and American governments is nothing new in the media, especially where the US Ganci airbase at Bishkek’s Manas International Airport is concerned.
What is unusual, however, is for one of the more well-known sources of news and analysis, in this case The Jamestown Foundation, to get […]
I remember the day when I was watching news programme on one of the local TV channels and heard that a Kyrgyz citizen Alexander Ivanov who worked as a local driver was killed by U.S. soldier Zachary Hatfield. It reminded me of another case when a young girl was hit by another U.S. soldier […]
According to www.akipress.kg, at about 15:00 on December 06, 2006, an American soldier shot with pistol a civilian of Kyrgyzstan citizenship at checkpoint at Ganci aviabase, “Manas” airport, Kyrgyzstan. “The civilian was given an emergency treatment by the doctors of US Air Force at the place where incident occurred and on the way to […]
On September 26 in the evening in the Manas airport two planes, an American and a Kyrgyz one collided on the ground. The collision, luckily, hasn’t left any dead or injured, but became yet another troubling sign of the problematic operational coexistence of the civilian and military aviation in the Kyrgyz airport Manas. […]
Summer in Kyrgyzstan this year tends to be hot. Especially, in terms of political negotiations. For almost three months Kyrgyz-American relations have been balancing on the edge, full of uncertainty and suspicion about each country’s motivations and intentions. The subject of political bargaining- American military base located near the capital city, Bishkek. It has […]
