Kyrgyz orphans to receive 500,000 soms on their 18th birthday   04.04.2024   Article published on the CentralAsia.news website   According to Kyrgyzstan’s Prime Minister, 270 million soms have been set aside for this purpose.   The Kyrgyz authorities plan to provide orphans with a lump-sum payment of 500,000 soms. Akylbek Zhaparov, Kyrgyzstan’s Prime Minister, …

Proposal to ban participation in the work of undesirable organisations   03.04.2024   Article published on the ASI website   On 2 April, bills were submitted to the Russian State Duma to establish liability for participating in the work of undesirable organisations, i.e.:   “Limitation for bringing to administrative liability” and “Participation in the work …

A supportive chatbot for those who have suffered domestic abuse has appeared online   02.04.2024   Article published on the ASI website   The creation of the chatbot has been timed to coincide with the start of a new season of the Mutual Consent television series directed by Valeria Gai Germanica which deals with the …

Lukashenko insists medicine be made accessible to all   Minsk, 02.04.2024 Source: sputnik.by   Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko visited the Grodno region to mark the start of construction of a municipal hospital.   Upon arriving in Grodno, Lukashenko was briefed by the Minister of Health, Alexander Khojaev, the presidential press service reports.   “We need …

How CSOs work in numbers — survey and statistics   The HSE Centre for Studies of Civil Society and the Nonprofit Sector has revealed which platforms CSOs choose to communicate with donors and who among the benefactors can be called ‘digital outsiders’.   28.03.2024   Article published on the ASI website     The HSE …

New statistics on refugee numbers published online   21.03.2024   Article published on the ASI website   The Civic Support Committee (recognised as a foreign agent inside Russia) has released a report on Migration Numbers for 2023.   In the document, the Committee refers to statistics produced by the Russian Federation’s Ministry of the Interior, …

Nearly 130,000 SONGOs in Russia in 2022 according to a report by the Russian Ministry for Economic Development   21.03.2024   Article published on the ASI website   The Russian Federation’s Ministry of Economic Development has published a report on the support and development of SONGOs (socially-oriented NGOs).   The document has brought together detailed …

Doctors sound the alarm over a possible whooping cough outbreak in Kazakhstan   20.03.2024   Article published on the centralasia.news website   Health workers are urging parents to get their act together and have their children vaccinated   against whooping cough.   Instances of whooping cough are continuing to grow at an alarming rate among young …

Tajikistan requests Russia’s support in fight against cholera Both parties agreed to cooperate in organising preventive monitoring of cholera and conducting joint research.   18.03.2024 From Central Asian  News   Tajikistan’s Ministry of Health and Social Protection and Russia’s consumer watchdog are to join forces in order to prevent the spread of cholera in Tajikistan. …

Human Rights Watch calls on Kyrgyz President to scrap ‘foreign representatives’ bill   15.03.2024   President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov should support the country’s non-governmental sector and withdraw an unlawful ‘foreign representatives’ bill aimed at silencing Kyrgyzstan’s active and vocal civil society, the international human rights organisation Human Rights Watch has claimed. The bill calls …