The bank’s assets amounted to 5.9 billion manats, 7.8 percent up from January-June 2020. Liabilities rose by 8.6 percent, amounting to 5.4 billion manats.

Kyrgyzstan's National Security Committee, the GKNB, said that Askar Akayev had been "delivered" to the capital Bishkek.

The money is to be paid to the central bank on 23rd August, just before Ukraine faces $3 billion in debt payments due in September.

Milli Mejlis MP Eldaniz Salimov was ordered locked up following a late-night brawl in a Caspian Sea resort town two hours north of Baku.

The lombard repo rate was set at 8.5 percent, and the deposit rate at 5.5 percent.