Kyrgyzstan News News Kyrgyzstan » Life: Kyrgyzstan’s ex-preident sentenced to life
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (AP) — A former president of Kyrgyzstan has been convicted and sentenced in absentia to life in prison for his role in violently breaking up an opposition rally, resulting in 77 ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Life: Afghan refugees leave Kyrgyzstan for new life in Canada
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan, July 12 (UNHCR) - A steady flow of Afghan refugees has started leaving Kyrgyzstan for a new life in Canada under a landmark group resettlement plan that is expected to largely end ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Life: Kyrgyzstan: Life under the smog dome
Only a few years ago, not many people in Kyrgyzstan took smog seriously. Most just thought of it as a harmless fog. These days, Bishkek regularly features near the top of lists of world cities ranked ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Life: 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 » Life: Russians Who Fled Mobilization Vlog About New Life In Kyrgyzstan
Buda Munkhoyev and Vladimir Popov moved from the Siberian region of Buryatia to the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, to avoid mobilization and the war in Ukraine. In Kyrgyzstan, they started making videos ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Life: Yakima cyclist's grueling trek through rugged Kyrgyzstan is the ride of her life
“Kyrgyzstan.” I reveled in enunciating every hard consonant and watching a person’s face contort in confusion. My hard-of-hearing friend survived the whole explanation of my trip only to say at the ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Life: Russian climber who broke her leg on Kyrgyzstan's highest mountain is presumed dead, officials say
Kyrgyzstan officials on Wednesday said a search for a Russian climber who became stranded on the country's highest peak after breaking her leg more than two weeks ago had found no signs of life.