February 16, 2026
The Diplomat - How Long Can Kyrgyzstan’s Economic Boom Keep Booming?
When the coronavirus pandemic struck in 2020, entrepreneur Amantur Asanaliev doubted whether his newly formed logistics company, TLK Supplier, would survive, let alone thrive. Sure enough, the pandemic quickly devastated many Kyrgyz businesses trading with China.
But six years on, a different black swan event – Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine – has transformed Asanaliev’s industry and large parts of Kyrgyzstan’s once-teetering economy.
“The sanctions against Russia have become a new driver of the Kyrgyz economy. If we used to send three to four trucks there every month, after the war began we could send 15,” Asanaliev told The Diplomat.
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Aigerim Turgunbaeva is a Research Fellow at the Turan Research Center.