INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russian President Vladimir Putinarrived in Kyrgyzstan early Thursday, marking his first trip abroad since the International Criminal Court
(ICC) issued a warrant for his arrest.Putin has seldom traveled abroad since invading Ukraine in February 2022 and has until now remained
inside the country since the March 2023 ICC warrant.Though Kyrgyzstan is a signatory to the ICC, it has not ratified its founding treaty
a BRICS summit in South Africa, which is an ICC member.The Hague-based ICC issued an arrest warrant for Putin on war crimes charges over the
republic in Central Asia involves talks with regional counterparts and attendance at the annual summit of the Moscow-led regional grouping
known as the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).Photographs published by the Kyrgyz government showed Putin being greeted by the
isolated internationally, Putin has continued to wield influence over former Soviet republics.Kyrgyzstan said Tuesday that Armenian leader
Nikol Pashinyan will skip the CIS summit amid a growing rift between Yerevan and Moscow.
