 Russian President Vladimir Putin took part on October 12th in a wreath-laying ceremony near the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek at the start of an official state visit to Central Asian country, his first known trip abroad since the ICC issued an arrest warrant against him. The ceremony took place at the Atabayit Memorial Complex near Bishkek, a memorial burial site dedicated to victims of the Soviet authorities, as well as those killed in Kyrgyzstan's 2010 revolution. A memorial at the site also remembers the victims of the 1916 Erkan, the Central Asian Revolt, Putin has rarely traveled abroad since the start of Moscow's so-called special military operation in Ukraine in February 2022 and is not known to have left Russia since the ICC in March issued a warrant for him on suspicion of illegally deporting hundreds of children from Ukraine. The Kremlin denies those allegations.