Calm is prevailing in Kyrgyzstan following President Sadyr Japarov’s power play earlier in February, when he purged his ...

Explore Osh, a city in the ethnically diverse Fergana Valley of southern Kyrgyzstan, which borders Uzbekistan. Predominantly ...

Director Chingiz Narynov discusses genre, mythology and environmental trauma behind his new feature, which gets its international premiere at IFFR. By Georg Szalai Global Business Editor The ...

The Ukraine War has turned Kyrgyzstan into a key intermediary for Russian imports, but economic growth is unevenly shared. In Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan—a mountainous, landlocked country of 7 million ...

KYRGYZSTAN USED to be an exception in Central Asia: the sole democracy in a region run by strongmen, albeit a flawed one. That is rapidly ceasing to be the case. It regressed a bit closer to the mean ...

President Sadyr Japarov has firm control in Kyrgyzstan Japarov allies expected to win parliamentary election President has cracked down on media and opposition groups Kyrgyzstan has fastest economic ...

Archaeologists recently explored a long-lost Silk Road city at the bottom of a lake, uncovering a trove of artifacts and a medieval cemetery. Reading time 2 minutes Lake Issyk-Kul sits in the ...

BISHKEK, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Kyrgyzstan has launched a national stablecoin and a central bank digital currency in partnership with cryptocurrency exchange Binance, President Sadyr Japarov said on ...

Kyrgyzstan is moving ahead with its national cryptocurrency strategy, launching a stablecoin and preparing for a public sector rollout of a central bank digital currency (CBDC),according to Binance co ...

UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk on Monday warned that the reinstation of the death penalty in Kyrgyzstan would breach international law obligations. Türk declared that the proposals to reintroduce ...

Kyrgyzstan’s main reservoir, Toktogul, holds just 10.8 cubic kilometers of water - its lowest September level in more than a decade - threatening electricity generation. The government plans to import ...

BUSAN, South Korea, Oct. 1 (UPI) --Panic Button, the debut feature documentary by Samara Sagynbaeva, examines the fallout from an investigative journalism project that uncovered a massive corruption ...