Kyrgyzstan News

Two collapsed coalitions, the odd bloody nose, and the delicate matter of a stolen bicycle: As Kyrgyzstan's first truly multi-party parliament enters its third year, observers and participants agree that the legislature has a lot of growing up to do.

This is a guest post from Alisher Abdug'ofurov, a young ethnic Uzbek Kyrgyzstani citizen living in Jalal-abad.

Leading analysts say it`s very unlikely that a trade buyer will be found for the Whitegate Oil refinery in Cork Harbour which has gone on the market ... The Irish Independent reports that analysts have warned that theres unlikely to be a trade buyer for the business and it may well end up shutting down.

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund today completed the fourth review of Kyrgyz Republic's economic performance under the program supported by a three-year, SDR 66.6 million Extended Credit Facility arrangement that was approved by the IMF's Executive Board on June 20, 2011 .

Zone 3.4 Championships 2013 take place from 6th June to 16th June 2013 in Osh, Kyrgyzstan.

Kyrgyz former Prime Minister Daniyar Usenov has been sentenced in absentia to 15 years in prison.

OSH, Kyrgyzstan -- Special events commemorating the victims of violent ethnic clashes three years ago have been held in Kyrgyzstan's southern regions of Osh and Jalal-Abad.

To say that Kyrgyzstan has been riddled with controversy lately would be an understatement.

Ku Reh sits at a table in Lutheran Social Services' Refugee and Immigration Center, his left hand resting on the cast covering his right wrist, and insists that bicycling in Sioux Falls is not dangerous.

School of Peacemaking and Media Technologies on the basis of the "Network of Social Mediators" Public Foundation is happy to announce a competition for the new Camp for Media Innovations among the officially registered print media and online media outlets of the Kyrgyz Republic.

Philip Wesley will be a junior in high school next fall. But he won't be joining his classmates at The Bromfield School in Harvard where he recently finished 10th grade.

A painting of Ryspek Akmatbayev, a suspected crime boss who won a parliamentary seat in 2006 but was murdered before taking office, hangs over a crowd of more than 100 Kyrgyz villagers who gathered in Balykchy to protest against his possible assassination.

Centerra Gold Inc. says it's in talks with representatives of the Kyrgyz Republic about a possible change to the ownership of the controversial Kumtor gold mine, which is operated by the Toronto-based mining company.

As Central Asian states prepare for what comes next when NATO forces withdraw from Afghanistan next year, Moscow is trying to forge a regional security grouping into a more effective system for countering threats.

A week-long wave of regional unrest, ostensibly due to disagreements over the fate of a key gold mine, has sent Kyrgyzstan into a state of disorder that looks all too familiar for citizens of the republic.

A picture taken on May 31, 2013, shows protesters crowding near a power substation in the Kyrgyz village of Tamga, some 300 km southeast of the capital Bishkek.

Eurasia Daily Monitor May 28 2013 Nine Potential `Karabakhs' in Central Asia Heating Up Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 10 Issue: 100 May 28, 2013 05:40 PM By: Paul Goble That the ethnic and political borders in Central Asia do not correspond is widely recognized; but the region's nine ethnic exclaves, territories within the borders of ... (more)

BISHKEK: Parts of Kyrgyzstan were under curfew Saturday after clashes between security forces and protesters who want a Canadian-owned gold mine nationalised led the president to declare a state of emergency.

Protesters are on their way to cut off electricity at a power transformer unit outside the Kyrgyz town of Barskoon on Friday.

Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan did not attend the Russia-led Collective Security Treaty Organization's summit in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on May 28, nor did he travel to Astana, Kazakhstan, the following day for the EurAsEC summit there, which gave rise to speculations that thus the Armenian leader showed his determination not to bow to Russian ... (more)