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11 July 2001 BISHKEK, July 11 (TCA)–In the ten years since its 1991 independence, Kyrgyzstan has lost 10 percent of its 5-million population to economic emigration. Until 1991, Central Asia enjoyed the fastest growing population of the Soviet Union and was often described as an “ethnic mosaic.” Predominantly Muslim and rural communities nurtured a high […]