Kyrgyzstan–Russia relations
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Kyrgyzstan–Russia relations are the relations between the two countries,
History
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Russian President Boris Yeltsin made his first international trip to Kyrgyzstan after he was elected president in 1991.[1]
President
The Kyrgyzstani government also felt compelled to request Russia's economic protection. Despite concerted efforts to seek international "sponsors," Akayev did not receive much more than international good will.[2]
President Almazbek Atambayev repeatedly presented himself as a pro-Russian politician during his years in office. He announced Kyrgyzstan's entry into the Customs Union, secured the withdrawal of the American 376th Air Expeditionary Wing from the country in 2014, and had spoken of the need for closer economic relations with the Russian Federation.[3]
Relations between peoples
Migrant policy
For its part, Russia sees aid to Kyrgyzstan as a successful precedent in its new policy of gaining influence in its "near abroad," the states that once were Soviet republics. Russia did not want a massive in-migration of Russians from the new republics; some 2 million
In 2023, Kyrgyzstan agreed to share the personal data of
Ethnic policy
For these reasons, despite opposition from Kyrgyz nationalists and other independence-minded politicians, in 1995 Akayev granted the request of Russian president Boris Yeltsin to review the constitutional provision making Kyrgyz the sole official language. In the current constitution, Russian is listed as an "official language" whereas Kyrgyz is the state language.[7]
Cross-cultural institutions
Economic cooperation
For all the financial support that the world community has offered, Kyrgyzstan remains economically dependent on Russia, both directly and through Kazakhstan. On his February 1994 visit to Moscow, Akayev signed several economic agreements. Having promised the republic a 75 billion ruble line of credit (presumably for use in 1994) and some US$65 million in trade agreements, Russia also promised to extend to Kyrgyzstan most favoured nation status for the purchase of oil and other fuels. For its part, Kyrgyzstan agreed to the creation of a Kyrgyz-Russian investment company, which would purchase idle defence-related factories in the republic to provide employment for the increasingly dissatisfied Russian population of Kyrgyzstan.
In early 1995,
Both Kyrgyzstan and Russia are members of the
Within the framework of the project "Emergency response to the consequences of COVID-19", Russia transferred 107 units of vehicles to health organizations and Centers for Disease Prevention and State sanitary and Epidemiological Supervision of the Kyrgyz Republic for a total amount of 3 million US dollars: 47 units of ambulances, 35 units of sanitary transport with sedan body type, 19 units of sanitary transport with type the body of a minivan, 4 units of specialized transport for transporting the bodies of the dead, 2 units of disinfection machines.[11]
Military cooperation
Since 2003, Russian Air Force units have been stationed at
Gallery
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and former Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev.
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Sergey Shoygu during a meeting with President Sooronbay Jeenbekov and Major General Rayimberdi Duishenbiev in Bishkek, April 2019.
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Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov with Russian President Putin and other post-Soviet leaders at the 2023 Moscow Victory Day Parade
References
- ^ "'Great Deeds, Serious Errors'". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. 2 February 2012. Retrieved 2020-11-03.
- ^ a b c d e Martha Brill Olcott. "Russia". Kyrgyzstan: a country study (Glenn E. Curtis, editor). Library of Congress Federal Research Division (March 1996). This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ Itar Tass 1 November 2011
- ^ Численность постоянного населения Кыргызской Республики по отдельным национальностям в 2009-2020гг. [Number of permanent population of the Kyrgyz Republic by individual nationalities in 2009-2020] (XLS). Bureau of Statistics of Kyrgyzstan (in Kyrgyz and Russian). 2020.
- ^ "Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan to Share Data with Moscow on Anti-War Russians, Conscripts". The Moscow Times. 22 June 2023.
- ^ Sebastien Peyrouse, Economic Aspects of China-Central Asia Rapprochment Archived 2009-02-07 at the Wayback Machine. Central Asia - Caucasus Institute, Silk Road Studies Program. 2007. p.18.
- ^ "Kyrgyzstan's Constitution of 2010 with Amendments throughg 2016" (PDF). Constitute Project. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
- ^ "Eurasian Economic Union member nations". Eurasian Economic Union.
- ^ China, US, Russia eye Bishkek
- ^ "Russia Gives Kyrgyzstan $30M Grant as Putin Visits Key Regional Ally". 28 March 2019.
- ^ "Глава Кабмина Акылбек Жапаров принял участие в церемонии передачи 107 единиц автотранспорта для системы здравоохранения". gov.kg (in Russian). Retrieved 2023-12-08.
- ^ "Russia to ship strike drones, S-300 air defense systems to Kyrgyzstan".