Kyrgyzstan News » Osh News Kyrgyzstan » Osh » Social: 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 » Social: Kyrgyzstan removes towering Lenin statue from second city
FILE - Local residents, Kyrgyz and Uzbeks, receive humanitarian aid in front of a statue of Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin on a central square in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh, Kyrgyzstan, ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Osh » Social: 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 » Social: Uzbeks in Kyrgyzstan still in limbo a year after fleeing Andijan violence
OSH, Kyrgyzstan, May 12 (UNHCR) - On the first anniversary of the violent events in Andijan, eastern Uzbekistan, Haitvoy* has every reason to sigh. The 29-year-old Uzbek has been in exile in ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Osh » Social: 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 » Social: A study on online violence among adolescents and young people is about to be launched in Kyrgyzstan
The validation meeting took place as part of the diagnostic study entitled ‘Forms of online violence among adolescents and young people aged 11-24 and assessment of opportunities for youth ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Osh » Social: Kyrgyzstan: 60 mosques, madrasas shuttered in Osh region
The security services in Kyrgyzstan say they have shut down 39 mosques and 21 Islamic schools in the southern Osh region as part of an ongoing mass inspection of religious institutions. In its August ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Osh » Social: Osh doctors detect heart conditions in orphanage screening
Doctors from the Southern Regional Scientific Center of Cardiovascular Surgery in Osh conducted free cardiac screenings for 61 children living in local orphanages and social institutions ...