On August 31, a formal ceremony marking the start of construction of a joint Russian-Kyrgyz Research Center for Infectious Disease Studies in the Kyrgyz Republic was held in Bishkek via videoconference. The Center is being established by Rospotrebnadzor pursuant to an instruction issued by the President of #Russia on November 24, 2021, and under the Agreement between the Government of the #Russian Federation and the Cabinet of Ministers of the