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Kyrgyzstan - Level 4: Do Not Travel
Do not travel to Kyrgyzstan due to COVID-19.

The empires, cultures, and history of Kyrgyzstan date back approximately 2,100 years. Highly mountainous terrain has helped Kyrgyzstan preserve its ancient culture at the crossroads of several great civilizations. Kyrgyzstan attained sovereignty as a nation-state after the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Middlebury Institute Partners with Ala-Too University in Kyrgyzstan on Teaching and Learning Project
Collaboration is essential for learning from and reflecting on our own educational practices as both teachers and learners. A new team of U.S. and Kyrgyz educators and students is working to promote ...

Chinese soft power in Kyrgyzstan grows through culture and language
Still looking to publicize its language and culture in Central Asia, China is using the instrument of Confucius Institutes to strengthen its soft power in Kyrgyzstan ...

Kyrgyzstan Attempts to Isolate Local Islam
After Kyrgyzstan obtained independence ... It is not the government?s task to teach citizens what and how to believe. Everyone decides their own faith. Yet personal issues such as religious ...

OPINION | CRITICAL MASS: College machinations studied in \'The Chair\'
In Jane Smiley's 1995 novel,"Moo," there is an 18-month old snowy-white, 700-pound Landrace boar ? "as big as a Volkswagen Beetle but much faster" ? residing in an abandoned building, Old Meats, in ...

Turkmenistan: Water mess
Turkmenistan is being more sure-footed, or consistent at least, on the Afghanistan front. Our weekly briefing.

Engineer Retires after Long, Distinguished DOE Career
As John Elmer wraps up more than three decades of work with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), he?ll look back on his many accomplishments with an immense sense of pride.

Kyrgyzstan?s COVID-19 cases reach 176,018
Kyrgyzstan?s COVID-19 tally reached 176,018 on Thursday as 142 new cases were registered across the country in the past 24 hours, Trend reports with reference to Kabar. The Republican ...