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The Diplomat
April 6, 2018
This is the reason why the gas and electricity supply has become an integral part of political parties' election manifestos. ... electricity transmission line, an expanded Lapis Lazuli Corridor, and Five Nations Railway Corridor among China, Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan (to name only a few).
The Interpreter
April 5, 2018
Rahmon has followed the example of many Central Asian leaders by using security threats as a pretext to eliminate legitimate political parties, but ultimately it is economic rapprochement with Uzbekistan that he believes will provide his regime with the protection it needs. Rahmon can now use new revenueÃÂ ...
CSS Resources (blog)
April 3, 2018
This edition analyses the results of Russia's 18 March 2018 presidential election, which extended President Putin's term in office up to 2024. More specifically, Margarita Zavadskaya examines the reasons for holding the vote when no one doubted who would win, pointing out how this relates to growingÃÂ ...
EurasiaNet
April 2, 2018
Kyrgyzstan's former president, Almazbek Atambayev, has made a characteristically pugnacious return to the political bull-ring following his unchallenged coronation ... This is an unusual moment for Kyrgyz politics. ... He also said that neither he nor his brother have any plans to form a new political party.
Pro Bono Australia
March 28, 2018
Australia is currently among a third of countries internationally that do not ban foreign donations to political parties. The US .... “Russia, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Israel, and now Hungary have all passed foreign agents bills, all citing the US example and some adopting direct translations of FARA,” Crosbie said.
Times of Central Asia
March 28, 2018
Earlier this month, Ghani offered to allow the Taliban to establish itself as a political party and said he would work to remove sanctions on the militant group, ... The declaration was adopted by Afghanistan, China, France, Germany, India, Iran, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Qatar, Russia,ÃÂ ...
Citizen
March 27, 2018
... other political party candidates. The National Peoples Ambassadors (NPA), the United Democratic Movement (UDM) and another independent candidate will join other party party candidates and go head-to-head at Jozini Municipality's ward 2. A total of 15 candidates from seven political parties and twoÃÂ ...
Arab News
March 25, 2018
The plan includes recognition of the Taliban as a political party, allowing the group to open an office in Kabul, removing the names of Taliban leaders from ... France, Germany, Italy, Turkey, India, Iran, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
Xinhua
March 18, 2018
... political parties and organizations expressed confidence that under Xi's leadership, China will achieve greater prosperity and make more contributions to world peace and development. The following is an edited version of some of the messages. Kyrgyz President Sooronbai Jeenbekov said Xi's electionÃÂ ...
Eurasia Daily
March 14, 2018
In Kyrgyzstan, they are going to hold a kurultai (a civil congress) "in support of the current president" Sooronbay Jeenbekov. ... Kyrgyz politician Ravshan Dzheenbekov believes that, despite the fact that the kurultai is aimed at supporting the president, the issues to be considered are "absolutely oppositionalÃÂ ...
Anadolu Agency
February 28, 2018
In a warm and open offer for peace to a longtime adversary, Afghan president on Wednesday called on the Taliban to shun violence and become a political party. Ashraf Mohammad Ghani outlined his government's comprehensive peace strategy towards the Taliban at the Kabul Process internationalÃÂ ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
October 11, 2017
People wait for a bus in front of election campaign posters at a bus stop in the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek. The country goes to the polls to ... He was nominated by Kyrgyzstan's leading political party, the Social Democrats (SDPK), who control 38 seats in the 120-seat parliament. He is closely associated withÃÂ ...
EurasiaNet
September 13, 2017
At the start of August, the leaders of three political parties in Kyrgyzstan announced they were joining forces and putting forward a single candidate for the October ... But just one month later, their coalition grouping, which they called Kaira Zharaluu, Kyrgyz for Revival, has not only failed to agree on a singleÃÂ ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
June 17, 2017
Current Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambaev is prohibited by the constitution from seeking another term and, unlike leaders in some of the ... In Kyrgyzstan's 2000 parliamentary elections, for example, several political parties were banned from participating just three months before election day. IndividualÃÂ ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
December 31, 1999
Most of the candidates are from the three registered political parties -- the Democratic Party of Turkmenistan (DPT, formerly the Communist Party); the Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, founded in 2012; and, making its first appearance in parliamentary elections, the Agrarian Party, founded in 2014ÃÂ ...
CSS Resources (blog)
January 15, 2018
After compromise was reached, it should be noted, Russia, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan criticized the fact that all four top jobs were awarded to Western .... This trend has been observable for the past 15 years, but it has further exacerbated and spread to political parties in Western Europe.
Capital Research Center
January 9, 2018
But why does the PSD, like many other Eastern European political parties, feel the need to castigate Soros, his NGOs, and their allies for being pure evil? .... Less than three months later, the Coalition for Democracy and Civil Society (CDCS), an NDI-funded NGO in Kyrgyzstan, helped launch that country'sÃÂ ...
Modern Diplomacy
December 31, 2017
We are a democratic political party where everyone is free to voice their mind. Shahbaz has had difference of opinion .... Russia is concerned the post-Soviet SCO members like Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan “are drifting too far into China's geostrategic orbit. There have been seriousÃÂ ...
Xinhua
December 22, 2017
"This proposal was of great interest to all political parties participating in this forum," he said. The Kyrgyz lawmaker said the proposals and initiatives put forward by China, including the Belt and Road Initiative, can help Kyrgyzstan achieve a powerful impetus in economic development. On bilateral economicÃÂ ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
December 21, 2017
In Kyrgyzstan, often noted as a leader in democratic reforms in the region, a new election law adopted in 2007 was enacted after no women held legislative seats in 2005. Under the new rules, women must comprise at least 30 percent of a political party's slate of candidates, while their election lists had toÃÂ ...
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
December 15, 2017
Russia has widely practiced this cultivation of friendly political parties, politicians, and business elites in Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, and Ukraine. Despite Azerbaijan's productive history of economic and security cooperation with the United States in the 1990s and 2000s, Kremlin-friendly figures in seniorÃÂ ...
Kankakee Daily Journal
December 9, 2017
I was in Kyrgyzstan for the first two weeks in October. I went to the Dominican Republic in 1996 ... In Kyrgyzstan, they have a biometric fingerprint system (to vote). I am not saying we need to go that far, but I ... Illinois was once a swing state between the two political parties. Now, it is pretty solidly DemocraticÃÂ ...
Foreign Affairs
December 5, 2017
During the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union faced off in an existential struggle between two antithetical systems. Either the Soviet bloc would “bury” the West, as Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev threatened in 1956, or Western principles of democratic accountability, individual rights, andÃÂ ...
New Straits Times Online
December 4, 2017
It also features female leaders from 18 countries and 27 political parties. The countries include, among others, Australia, the United States, Uganda, Palestine, Mauritius, Kyrgyzstan and South Africa. Shahrizat, who is WIPKL2017 chairman, expressed hope that the conference will trigger fruitful discussionÃÂ ...
New Straits Times Online
December 3, 2017
Wanita Umno Chief Tan Sri Shahrizat Abd Jalil (centre) , Vice Prime Minister, Minister of Local Government and Outer Islands, Republic of Mauritius, Fazila Jeewa Daureawoo (left), and Governor of Ramallah and Al-Bireh, State of Palestine, Dr. Laila Ghannam during a Press conference on Women inÃÂ ...
The Diplomat
November 29, 2017
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is planning to hold a World Political Parties Dialogue from November 30 to December 3 in Beijing. It is the first time for the CCP to hold such a high-level meeting with various parties worldwide, signalling the CCP's ambition to have a louder voice in the internationalÃÂ ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
November 29, 2017
Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev (right) raised hackles in Bishkek when he met with Kyrgyz opposition presidential candidate Omurbek Babanov (left) .... for groups or individuals in Kazakhstan, many of whom have access to vast amounts of money, to finance political parties or candidates in Kyrgyzstan,ÃÂ ...
EurasiaNet
November 13, 2017
The main losing candidate in the recent presidential election in Kyrgyzstan has relinquished leadership of his political party in the wake of a criminal investigation being opened against him. Omurbek Babanov said in a statement on November that he will no longer head the Respublika/Ata-Jurt group,ÃÂ ...
EurasiaNet
November 13, 2017
The main losing candidate in the recent presidential election in Kyrgyzstan has relinquished leadership of his political party in the wake of a criminal investigation being opened against him. Omurbek Babanov said in a statement on November that he will no longer head the Respublika/Ata-Jurt group,ÃÂ ...
Democratic Audit UK
October 24, 2017
In a recent article, Pathways to Democratization in Personalist Dictatorships, Andrea Kendall-Taylor and I identify a key factor that increases the odds of democratisation in personalist dictatorships: the creation of a political party. We find that personalist dictatorships that create their own political partiesÃÂ ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
October 11, 2017
People wait for a bus in front of election campaign posters at a bus stop in the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek. The country goes to the polls to ... He was nominated by Kyrgyzstan's leading political party, the Social Democrats (SDPK), who control 38 seats in the 120-seat parliament. He is closely associated withÃÂ ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
September 26, 2017
Mirziyoev met with leaders of Kyrgyzstan's political parties who were lined up to shake hands with the Uzbek leader. When Mirziyoev reached Babanov he stopped for a few extra seconds and said to Babanov, "[I've] heard something about you." Mirziyoev continued walking down the line of political partyÃÂ ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
September 20, 2017
Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan exchanged pointed accusations and diplomatic protests after Kazakhstan's president met with a Kyrgyz presidential ... “The meetings of the head of state with prominent politicians and leaders of political parties of different countries at their request take place on a regular basisÃÂ ...
EurasiaNet
September 13, 2017
At the start of August, the leaders of three political parties in Kyrgyzstan announced they were joining forces and putting forward a single candidate for the October ... But just one month later, their coalition grouping, which they called Kaira Zharaluu, Kyrgyz for Revival, has not only failed to agree on a singleÃÂ ...
EurasiaNet
September 13, 2017
At the start of August, the leaders of three political parties in Kyrgyzstan announced they were joining forces and putting forward a single candidate for the October ... But just one month later, their coalition grouping, which they called Kaira Zharaluu, Kyrgyz for Revival, has not only failed to agree on a singleÃÂ ...
The Diplomat
August 2, 2017
Fifty-nine individuals filed, 11 nominated by political parties and 48 independents. In order to appear on the ballot each prospective candidate must collect at least 30,000 signatures, pay a 1 million som ($14,600) deposit, and pass a Kyrgyz language test. The 11 political party candidates comprise of anÃÂ ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
June 17, 2017
Current Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambaev is prohibited by the constitution from seeking another term and, unlike leaders in some of the ... In Kyrgyzstan's 2000 parliamentary elections, for example, several political parties were banned from participating just three months before election day. IndividualÃÂ ...
The Diplomat
May 18, 2017
Kyrgyzstan's most prominent political party, the Social Democratic Party, met May 17 and decided on a nominee to run in the presidential election this fall. The party's nominee — Sooronbay Jeenbekov — has served as prime minister since April 2016. He joins a growing field of candidates for an electionÃÂ ...
Journalducameroun.com
December 31, 1999
Kholdarov was a member of the Erk political party banned for its opposition to late Uzbek leader Islam Karimov and documented rights abuses in Andijan. ... Kholdarov initially escaped the country but was then brought back from neighbouring Kyrgyzstan in 2006 in circumstances his supporters likened to aÃÂ ...
Global Times
December 2, 2017
Xi made the remarks at the opening of CPC in Dialogue with World Political Parties High-Level Meeting in Beijing. ... Zulpukarov Torobai, deputy chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Kyrgyzstan, said that China has become an important country to safeguard the new international order and the ...
Transitions Online
November 30, 2017
Kyrgyzstan is a secular republic that guarantees separation of faith and state and forbids the creation of political parties on a religious basis. However, religious belief has been on the rise since the dissolution of the Soviet Union and clashes between Islamic and secular traditions sometimes come to the ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
November 30, 2017
Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev (right) raised hackles in Bishkek when he met with Kyrgyz opposition presidential candidate Omurbek Babanov (left) .... for groups or individuals in Kazakhstan, many of whom have access to vast amounts of money, to finance political parties or candidates in Kyrgyzstan, ...
Frederick News Post
November 20, 2017
... including Ivory Coast, Gabon, Guinea, Latvia, Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria, ... dissatisfaction with political parties, legislatures and governments.
Newsday
November 16, 2017
Since 2005, a number of countries, including Ivory Coast, Gabon, Guinea, Latvia, Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria, Sri Lanka and Tunisia have made substantial ... the rule of law in public administration - and the corruption and ineffective public administration arguably feed public dissatisfaction with political parties, ...
EurasiaNet
November 13, 2017
The main losing candidate in the recent presidential election in Kyrgyzstan has relinquished leadership of his political party in the wake of a ...
Eurasia Review
November 12, 2017
In Kazakhstan, there is a ministry for religious affairs; in Kyrgyzstan a ... Fourth, the prospects for any Islamic political party in any of these ...
New Eastern Europe
November 2, 2017
In Central Asian states, namely Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, ... The Islamic Renaissance Party is a well-known political party and for ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
November 2, 2017
In April, an ethnic Uzbek man born in Kyrgyzstan allegedly blew up a ... his death last year, outlawed Islamist political parties and hunted down ...
The Atlantic
November 1, 2017
... last year, outlawed Islamist political parties and imprisoned and tortured ... killing over a dozen people, was an ethnic Uzbek from Kyrgyzstan.
New York Times
October 25, 2017
... deposed authoritarian leaders in Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan. .... no independent nongovernmental organizations or political parties.
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