Kirgisistan

[…] He is due to meet his Kyrgyz counterpart Sadyr Japarov and to take part in a summit of the Commonwealth of Independent States with his Belarus ally Alexander Lukashenko and other regional leaders.

"We believe the steps taken by the authorities against our leader and party members are criminal," United Kyrgyzstan wrote on social media late on September 4. It vowed to fight Adakhan Madumarov's detention after the leading rival of President Sadyr Japarov was arrested on September 2.

Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan are engaging in an arms race in Central Asia that is creating some odd geopolitical alignments. NATO allies are opposing each other, while two implacable enemies, the United States and Iran, find themselves on the same side. Meanwhile, Russia, the traditional regional power broker, is sitting on the sidelines while Belarus is playing a prominent role.

Authorities in Kyrgyzstan’s southern region of Batken say the border with Tajikistan, shut down more than two years ago following a deadly standoff, can "gradually reopen" after delimitation and demarcation work between the two Central Asian nations is fully accomplished.

Russia will “develop” its military installations in Central Asian ally Kyrgyzstan, the Kremlin said Monday, following talks between the two countries’ leaders in Moscow.

The October 23 raids targeted an array of public figures from former security bosses to rights advocates who had one thing in common -- their opposition to a controversial border deal with Uzbekistan. Any such border agreement would be a landmark for two countries whose leaders could barely stand to be in the same room less than a decade ago. But it would require Kyrgyzstan to cede control over a strategic reservoir called Kempir-Abad.

Both sides are accusing one another of secretly returning troops and weapons to the contested border.

At least 94 people have been killed and more than 100 injured in clashes on the disputed Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan border - the deadliest in years. Fighting between the two Central Asian states broke out on Wednesday, before a ceasefire was agreed on Friday.

The clash comes against the backdrop of the Russia-Ukraine war and fighting between Azerbaijan and Armenia. … Both Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan are allied with Russia and host Russian military bases, but fighting over border issues is frequent and last year almost resulted in an all-out war between the former Soviet republics.

The foreign ministers of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan have discussed the situation along disputed segments of the border between the two Central Asian nations after another deadly shoot-out involving border guards.