The instruction, reported by 24.kg on Friday, names no figures and no suspects; on its face it is procedure. The timing is the story. Cities usually audit their festivals after the tents come down. Bishkek is filing with the police before the motorcades arrive, with the Nomad Games opening on 31 August and the summit's heads-of-state session on 1 September.
The mayor ran the collegium with acting city council chairman Zhyldyzbek Abdraimov; the same session handed the water utility a sewerage build-out for Bishkek's annexed districts and put an international-standard pool under special control, ordinary housekeeping alongside the summit file.
βCities usually audit their festivals after the tents come down.β
The guest list firmed up the same day. Peskov confirmed that Putin plans to attend: "the president's participation is planned, that is indeed so." Manas airport will restrict passenger flights on 31 August and 1 September. Bishkek has announced Xi Jinping; Beijing had still not said so on its own channels as of Thursday's foreign ministry briefing.
