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By Nurbek Bekmurzaev for Eurasianet A couple of months back, Kyrgyzstan’s president called a family in the southern city of Kyzyl-Kiya to congratulate them on the birth of their fourth child and suggested a name: Zhakshylyk, meaning good in Kyrgyz. “So that his birth brings a lot of good to the nation,” Sadyr Japarov told the proud parents. Zhakshylyk was no ordinary baby. By official calculations, he was the country’s 7 millionth citizen. Kyrgyzstan has one of the fastest-expanding populations in Asia. The rate of growth is outmatched only by Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Yemen. The N…