By Aigerim Turgunbaeva for Eurasianet The arrest of a private driving school director in Bishkek has turned what authorities describe as a road-safety reform initiative into a broader debate over ...

Under a proposed 20th European Union sanctions package against Russia, expected to be adopted by the end of the month, ...

UNHCR is extremely concerned about the fate of four Uzbek refugees who are still in detention in Osh, western Kyrgyzstan, nearly a year after they were arrested following an extradition request from ...

By Alexander Thompson for Eurasianet For the past five-plus years, they had been known as the “two friends” who ran Kyrgyzstan. Then, on February 10, they were friends no more. With ruthless ...

BISHKEK (Reuters) - Kyrgyz security services have detained four people, including an employee of a Russian government agency, on suspicion of recruiting Kyrgyz citizens to fight in the Russian army, ...

The Border Service has been taken out from under the GKNB and at least five people who signed a letter calling for early ...

The Chui regional court in northern Kyrgyzstan on July 15 rejected an appeal filed by government critic and journalist Oljobai Shakir (aka Egemberdiev) against the five-year prison term he was handed ...

Kyrgyzstan's President Sadyr Japarov has dismissed Kamchybek Tashiev, a key ally, from his roles as head of the State Committee for National Security and deputy prime minister. The decision aims to ...

JALAL-ABAD, KYRGYZSTAN -- A month before the deadly ethnic clashes that devastated southern Kyrgyzstan last week, a mob loyal to the recently deposed president, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, seized the ...