Kyrgyzstan News News Kyrgyzstan » History: Kyrgyzstan's Historic Clampdown on Independent Media
In a historic move, a Kyrgyzstan court banned major independent media outlets Kloop, Temirov Live, and AitAit Dese as extremist organizations. This decision, stirred by President Sadyr Japarov's ...
News Kyrgyzstan » History: Kyrgyzstan bans top independent media as 'extremist' in pre-election crackdown
A court in Kyrgyzstan has banned three of the country's top independent media outlets as "extremist organisations", the first such ruling in the country’s history, weeks ahead of a snap parliamentary ...
News Kyrgyzstan » History: Interpol Rejects Kyrgyzstan’s Request for a Warrant against Independent Media Co-Founder
Kyrgyzstan requested a Red Notice for Rinat Tuhvatshin, co-founder of Kloop, in an apparent attempt to silence him abroad. The government has been cracking down on all independent media critical of ...
News Kyrgyzstan » History: An Eyewitness to History in Kyrgyzstan
Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. How extraordinary to be an eyewitness to the peaceful overthrow of a standing government that began and ended ...
News Kyrgyzstan » History: Kyrgyzstan court jails two journalists for undermining public order
BISHKEK, Sept 17 (Reuters) - A court in Kyrgyzstan sentenced two former video editors of the independent outlet Kloop, Zhoomart Duulatov and Alexander Alexandrov, to five years in prison on Wednesday ...
News Kyrgyzstan » History: Unlocking central Asia
For Malaysia and the broader Asean region, forging stronger ties with the C5 members – Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan – will unlock new avenues for trade, investment, ...
News Kyrgyzstan » History: Education Still Vulnerable to Attack in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan
In September 2022, at least 23 schools and kindergartens in southwestern Kyrgyzstan were attacked during a short but violent border conflict between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Some schools were ...
News Kyrgyzstan » History: Photo story: the search for elusive leopards in Kyrgyzstan's Tian Shan Mountains
In Kyrgyzstan’s formidable Tian Shan mountains lies the Sarychat-Eertash nature reserve, a place of deep valleys and wild rivers coursing below 6,000-metre peaks. Existence in this remote corner of ...
News Kyrgyzstan » History: Kyrgyzstan detains Russian government agency worker accused of recruiting fighters for Ukraine war
BISHKEK, April 23 (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 ...