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Dozens of families in Central Asia have received the bodies of their loved ones killed in Ukraine. Some of them were recruited from Russian prisons. Others were migrant workers lured with promises of money and a Russian passport, and some went to war willingly.
Zalim Kerefov, the deputy rector of the Russian Customs Academy who had been arrested on charges of alleged drug dealing, has been found dead in police custody.
The independent Russian television station Dozhd, which was forced to suspend operations in March amid pressure linked to its coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, says it will start broadcasting some of its programs from Latvia.
Advertisement In late March, while prematurelybragging about resolving Kyrgyzstan’s outstanding border uncertainties with Uzbekistan via land swaps, the chairman of Kyrgyzstan’s State Committee for National Security (SCNS or GKNB) Kamchybek Tashiev proposed land swaps as a possible solution to Kyrgyzstan’s similarly thorny border issues with Tajikistan. A month later, the area Tashiev had suggested swapping for — Vorukh — was the trigger for the worst fighting the Kyrgyz-Tajik border has seen in recent years. The recent clashes fit into an worsening pattern in which the unsettled ...