BREST, 1 July (BelTA) – Brest and Kyrgyzstan’s Karakol have become sister cities. This decision was formalized at a ceremony on 1 July, BelTA learned from the Brest City Executive Committee. A ...

LONDON (AP) — Authorities in the second-largest city in Kyrgyzstan, Osh, have removed a towering statue of Vladimir Lenin thought to be the tallest of the revolutionary Soviet leader in Central Asia.

Over the weekend, authorities in Kyrgyzstan’s second city, Osh, dismantled Central Asia’s tallest statue of Vladimir Lenin. Installed in 1975, the 75-foot statue’s removal, 34 years after the collapse ...

Central Asian countries are accelerating plans to build new large-scale cities—including Asman, Alatau, New Tashkent and Arkadag—as ageing Soviet-era infrastructure, population pressures, and the hunt ...