Kyrgyzstan News » Osh News Kyrgyzstan » Osh » History: In Kyrgyzstan’s Osh, Lenin statue goes 34 years after Soviet collapse
For 50 years, a 23-meter, 7.5-ton statue of Vadimir Lenin swept his arm out over Kyrgyzstan’s second city of Osh from a perch above the central square. Then one morning, he disappeared. Residents of ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Osh » History: Kyrgyzstan’s Second City Osh Takes Down Lenin Statue
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 ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Osh » History: Osh, Kyrgyzstan : Kyrgyzstan constitution approved
Barely two weeks after ethnic purges left many minority Uzbek communities in smoldering ruin, about two-thirds of Kyrgyzstan's voters went to the polls Sunday to peacefully and overwhelmingly approve ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Osh » History: 15 Years On, Ethnic Uzbeks Sill Face Bias in Kyrgyzstan
It has been 15 years since devastating ethnic violence between Kyrgyz and Uzbek people swept through southern Kyrgyzstan, leaving over 400 dead, thousands injured, and entire neighborhoods destroyed.