Kyrgyzstan News » Osh 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: Booming Demand For Madrasahs Fuels Islamization Concerns In Kyrgyzstan
OSH, Kyrgyzstan -- At a spotless and modern-looking madrasah in Kyrgyzstan's southern Osh Province, two teenage girls studying the Koran admit that they know little about the Arabic text they have ...
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: Kyrgyzstan's Niqab Ban: Dozens Of Women Fined, Hundreds Warned In Police Raids
Police in Kyrgyzstan have issued hefty fines and official warnings to hundreds of women wearing the niqab, a face veil that is banned in the Muslim-majority country. At least 29 women were each fined ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Osh » Social: Kyrgyzstan’s Second City Osh Takes Down Lenin Statue
‘There Is Zero Accountability’: India’s ‘Cockroaches’ Question Modi and a Broken System Over the weekend, authorities in Kyrgyzstan’s second city, Osh, dismantled Central Asia’s tallest statue of ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Osh » Social: 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.
News Kyrgyzstan » Osh » Social: Kyrgyzstan urges China Southern to expand flights, open Guangzhou–Osh service
BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 2. Kyrgyzstan has proposed that China Southern Airlines launch direct flights between Guangzhou and Osh. The press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kyrgyzstan ...