At Kyrgyzstan’s Kumtor Mine, Not All That Glitters Is Gold – Analysis

By Bruce Pannier*

(RFE/RL) -- Mining the Kumtor gold deposits in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan was supposed to bring economic salvation to the former Soviet republic in Central Asia.

For a country lacking large reserves of oil or natural gas, the government’s joint mining project with a foreign firm was seen as a way to...