One City Took 61% of Kyrgyzstan's Gold Certificates. That Isn't a Struggle, It's a Collapse

I analyzed JRT golden certificates 2026. Out of 55 top-scoring graduates nationwide, Bishkek alone took 34 of them. That means a single city, representing less than 20 percent of all test-takers, took 61 percent of the highest honors. All seven other regions combined house more than 80 percent of our youth, yet they could get only 21 certificates. In Osh, our second-largest city, the whole population yielded just one certificate.

The split between public and private schools exposes the structural collapse even further. Over 93 percent of kids in this country attend regular public schools, yet private institutions and elite lyceums claimed roughly 60 percent of all Gold Certificates. A student in a private capital school is about ten times more likely to get a Gold Certificate than a peer sitting in a regional public school.

I don’t mean that Gold Certificates matter, or they are a good measurement. But it’s a good test for comparing regions. Private and capital-city schools aren’t doing anything revolutionary, they are just barely functioning. The real issue is that public education, especially out in the regions, has sunk so low that basic functionality now looks like world-class achievement.

As we discussed, when decay is everywhere, it becomes comfortable. If everyone in Kyrgyzstan is trapped in a failing system, failure stops feeling like an emergency to fix, it becomes the default setting of life.

AI era is here, we don’t have much time. In 10-15 years, robots start doing most of the jobs in economy. Our people can’t even go to Russia for work. We either take responsibility and do something before its too late, or suffer the consequences.

P.S: Most of the above can be applied to other Central Asian/Developing countries.