Absolutely and there are no longer any levers of external pressure on Kyrgyz authorities—and they are fully aware of it.

The extent of the vindictive crackdown against Kloop and independent media critical of the current regime in Kyrgyzstan is really unprecedented for the country. My sense is that it comes from a deep sense of insecurity of the governing tandem despite having control of all levels of power.

People are commenting “welcome to turkmenistan” all over Kyrgyz social media —and I have to say that the measure is indeed more extreme than anything we’ve seen in Kazakhstan or even Uzbekistan in recent years

Kloop and Temirov Live get thousands of likes, reposts and comments every day. From now on, doing any of that could potentially land you in jail. Unclear if simply following them on social media can be constituted as a crime, but I wouldn’t be surprised. Digital repression on an unprecedented level

The crackdown on independent media has been relentless: foreign agent law, show trials against individual journalists, forced into exile abroad—and now authorities are going against their audience in Kyrgyzstan. This is unprecedented and we’re reaching Russia levels of censorship.

Chances are, if that person is from the post-Soviet space, the "elites on both sides" are predictably "the Jews".