Mikayla Penn

Kyrgyzstan Faces Protests Over Recent Parliamentary Election

On the tail of Kyrgyzstan’s fourth election this year, President Sadyr Japarov seems to have finally secured an allied parliament but this apparent victory hasn’t come without opposition. After a...

What Japarov Could Mean for the Future of Kyrgyzstan

University of Georgia

Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Kyrgyzstan was one heralded as an “island of democracy” in Central Asia. In the previous three decades, the former colony has faced a number of...