Kyrgyzstan
Russia keeps its pumps on Euro-2 to June 2027 while its export bans hold, Novak tells the government
Deputy prime minister Alexander Novak has reported the state of the fuel market to a government subcommission chaired by first deputy prime minister Denis Manturov, Kommersant reported on Thursday evening: exports of petrol, diesel and jet fuel are banned, the Tax Code has been amended to create the conditions for fuel imports, and filling stations may sell fuel of ecological classes K2, K3 and K4, Euro-2 to Euro-4, under a temporary permit. The permit rests on a government resolution reported on 31 August and runs from 1 September to 30 June 2027. The bans are the ones already on record, and the producers' diesel ban ends on 30 September.
Kyrgyzstan's January election comes with a 1 million som fee that not even the winner gets back
The chairman of the Central Election Commission, Tynchtyk Shainazarov, has set out, in remarks 24.kg published on Friday, how the presidential election of 27 January 2027 will run: a contribution of 1 million som ($11,400) from each candidate's election fund that the budget keeps whatever the result, at least 30,000 signatures with electronic signing through the Tunduk portal allowed, an agitation period from 22 or 23 December, and a vote on a Wednesday instead of a Sunday. Parliament calls the election on 24 September.
Kyrgyzstan's appeal court drops the seizure-of-power article against Tashiev and 7 others, and cuts their probation to 2 years
Bishkek City Court on Thursday moved the “letter 75” case from article 326 of the Criminal Code, violent seizure of power, to article 195, obstruction of the exercise of electoral rights, and sentenced all 8 defendants to 4 years with 2 years of probation supervision in place of prison. The prosecution had asked for 9 years for each of them. The defence is going to the Supreme Court.
Kyrgyzstan's energy minister rules out power rationing with Toktogul at 11.2 billion cubic metres and 4.1 billion kWh of imports planned
The ministry is not considering restrictions on electricity supply for now, Altynbek Rysbekov told journalists on Wednesday, 24.kg reported at 17:09 Bishkek time. The Toktogul reservoir holds 11.2 billion cubic metres, the target before the heating season is 11.5 billion, and 4.1 billion kilowatt-hours of imports from Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan are planned for 2026. The same afternoon China's ambassador said deliveries of jet fuel and diesel to Kyrgyzstan began a month ago and will continue, and gave no figures.
Kyrgyzstan's parliament confirms Malik Bekturganov as prosecutor general a day before the appeal verdict on Tashiev
The Jogorku Kenesh approved Malik Bekturganov as prosecutor general on Wednesday morning, 24.kg reported at 10:53 Bishkek time. He has run the office as acting prosecutor general since June and was its first deputy from June 2024. On Thursday the Bishkek City Court is expected to rule on the appeals in the «letter 75» case, where his office is asking 9 years with confiscation for Kamchybek Tashiev and seven others.
Kyrgyzstan puts a 74.5 billion som price on its melting glaciers
A decree signed by President Sadyr Japarov creates a fund for the protection of Kyrgyzstan's glaciers and Lake Issyk-Kul, 24.kg reported on Tuesday morning, five days after the environment ministry published a draft National Adaptation Plan to 2035 costed at 74.5 billion som ($852 million), 54% of it expected from foreign grants and climate funds. The decree gives the cabinet until 1 October to say what the fund is and where its money comes from.
The first of 27 tunnels on the Kyrgyz section of the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway is through
The China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan Railway Company reported on Saturday that the Kosh-Dobo North No. 2 tunnel, 209.6 metres long and started in June 2025, had been holed through: the first of the 27 tunnels under construction on the 304.84 km Kyrgyz section of the line from Kashgar to Andijan.
On the map in your pocket, Russia is 10 Central Asias. On the ground it is 4.3
The UN General Assembly voted on Friday to push the world's maps away from Mercator, for Africa's sake. CAW ran the same arithmetic across Eurasia: the standard web map hands Russia a latitude premium that doubles its visual weight against Central Asia, and hands Central Asia a premium of its own against every neighbour to its south and east. Correcting the map takes the northern half of that bargain away.
Russian exchange diesel falls 8.8% in the week its producers were locked in
Summer diesel on the St Petersburg exchange ended Friday at 68,610 roubles a tonne, 8.76% below the previous Friday by the national index Interfax publishes, after the government kept producers' exports shut to 30 September. AI-92 fell 4.38% on Thursday to 68,945 and ended the week at 68,805. At the central bank's rate that is $792 a tonne, $168 under the $960 reference Kyrgyzstan's subsidy is written against, and diesel at $790 sits $260 under its $1,050 line.
31 December, in dollars
Bishkek fixed its fuel wall at $960 a tonne of petrol until New Year's Eve and backdated it to August. In the first month behind it, petrol rose anyway. Here is what the resolution says, what the statistics say, and the document that would settle the difference.
Russian crude reaches Kyrgyzstan by Kazakh pipeline for the first time: 35,000 tonnes in August
KazTransOil says it carried its first transit oil to Kyrgyzstan in August: 35,000 tonnes moved through its trunk pipelines to the Shagyr loading point and on by rail. Reuters names the origin as Russia. The route matters because Moscow's export bans cover petrol and diesel, and crude is the good that still travels.
The summit nobody counted the same way
A peak that lost a name to gain one, guests numbered 17, 18 or 21, documents 28 or 29, and a chamber that approved a government without saying by how many votes. In the region's week of ceremonies, numbers appeared where they flattered and vanished where they would bind.
Bishkek's petrol rose 1.5% in the first month behind the dollar wall
The statistics committee's August print shows AI-92 up 1.46% on July and diesel down 0.17%, in the month the government's fuel subsidy, by its own retroactive clause, began running against a $960 reference. The wall is real, it is paid to importers in arrears, and the pump has not felt it.
Diesel in Dushanbe is up 50% since June, and no budget stands between the pump and the border
Asia-Plus priced diesel in the Tajik capital at about 16.50 somoni a litre on 31 August, 5.50 somoni above early June. Bishkek fixes a dollar reference and runs a compensation formula from its budget; Ulaanbaatar holds a regulated pump price and manages the shortfall by the monthly book. Dushanbe does neither, so the whole adjustment lands on the pump.
The remittance machine gets a new price list
From 1 September a migrant in Moscow carries a phone that reports where he sleeps, pays 10,000 roubles a month for the right to work, and sends money home over rails the EU has started to sanction. The money keeps coming. What changed is what each dollar of it now costs.
Russian exchange petrol prints a record $86 under the price Bishkek fixed
AI-92 rose 4.36% to 75,477 roubles a tonne on the St Petersburg exchange on Tuesday, a level Kommersant reports as a record, while AI-95 and diesel fell. At the central bank's rate for the day that is about $874, within $90 of the $960 reference price Kyrgyzstan wrote into its subsidy decree last week.
The SCO leaves Bishkek with 28 documents and two new centers
The 25th anniversary summit closed on 1 September with 28 signed texts, the Bishkek Declaration at the top: charter amendments that add two new bodies to the organization's structure, a roadmap for settling more trade in national currencies, and sectoral programs running to 2030.
Charter amendments top the SCO's anniversary pile in Bishkek
The organisation's heads of state met in Bishkek today over a Bishkek Declaration and more than 20 documents, charter amendments among them. The final texts were still unpublished as this edition went to print.
Xi's Bishkek package holds a treaty, a bridge and no fuel line
Xi Jinping and Sadyr Japarov signed a treaty of perpetual good-neighbourliness, friendship and cooperation on 31 August, with a joint declaration and, by economist.kg's count, 28 sectoral documents behind it. The lists published by evening carry a bridge, a rail memorandum and a berry protocol, and nothing on fuel, the one commodity Kyrgyzstan now prices by decree.