Kyrgyzstan News News Kyrgyzstan » People: In Kyrgyzstan, creeping authoritarianism rubs up against proud tradition of people power
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Presidents Vladimir Putin of Russia and Sadyr Japarov of Kyrgyzstan loom over the people of Bishkek. Contributor/Getty Images The ...
News Kyrgyzstan » People: Kyrgyz People Vote for Democratic Future
Kyrgyz residents went to the polls on Sunday for parliamentary elections, bringing Kyrgyzstan one step closer to becoming Central Asia’s first parliamentary democracy, following unrest earlier this ...
News Kyrgyzstan » People: Kyrgyz Media Under Increasing Pressure, But ‘Kloop Will Continue Its Work’
Last month, over the course of two days Kyrgyz authorities carried out raids on the homes and offices of more than dozen journalists in Bishkek, ultimately detaining 11 journalists associated with ...
News Kyrgyzstan » People: In Kyrgyzstan, an ‘unprecedented crackdown’ on free press raises alarm
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan and Warsaw, Poland – Last year, Aidai Irgebai had a serious talk with her two daughters, aged nine and seven. The girls would not return to their school in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan’s ...
News Kyrgyzstan » People: Russian influence in Kyrgyzstan rising despite local consternation
Talas, a dusty town in northwestern Kyrgyzstan, is not accustomed to foreign dignitaries. Tourists occasionally stop there, but even officials from the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, rarely visit this ...
News Kyrgyzstan » People: Kyrgyzstan agrees on action plan to cut and prevent statelessness
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan, September 22 (UNHCR) - Kyrgyzstan agreed on Tuesday to adopt a concrete plan of action to cut and prevent statelessness in a country where the nationality status of thousands of ...
News Kyrgyzstan » People: Kyrgyz Cultural Exchange Meeting. A folk instrument that stole my heart.
Hello, this is Etsuko🐼― It looks like a shamisen, but it's surprisingly rock! ―After the NCARM lower body care workshop in Tenjin, Fukuoka, finished, I heard that a Kyrgyz cultural exchange meeting ...
News Kyrgyzstan » People: Kyrgyzstan: People’s assembly lambasted as power grab
In mid-December, Kyrgyzstan will hold the maiden session of the People’s Kurultai, a new permanent branch of government willed into existence by President Sadyr Japarov. Japarov began promoting this ...
News Kyrgyzstan » People: Kyrgyzstan Detains 6 People Suspected Of Desecrating National Flag
Kyrgyzstan's State Committee for National Security (UKMK) said on June 5 that it has detained six people, including two teenaged girls, in the southern region of Jalal-Abad for allegedly desecrating ...
News Kyrgyzstan » People: This Indigenous Language Survived Russian Occupation. Can It Survive YouTube?
When anthropology researcher Ashley McDermott was doing fieldwork in Kyrgyzstan a few years ago, she says many people voiced the same concern: Children were losing touch with their indigenous language ...
News Kyrgyzstan » People: Over 800,000 Kyrgyz people to turn remittances into financial opportunities: IFAD, EU and Kompanion Bank join forces
Over 800,000 Kyrgyz people —including migrants, their families, returnees, and aspiring migrant workers—will be transforming remittances, the money sent home by migrant workers, into a powerful ...