Kyrgyzstan News

The earthquake that occurred in Uzbekistan on Saturday night at 3.18 caused casualties or damage, Ministry of Emergency Situations told Trend.

The "black box" flight recorder from the U.S. Air Force jet that crashed in Kyrgyzstan has been found , and the U.S. and Kyrgyzstan have reached an agreement on the sensitive issue of sharing access to the information contained therein.

Thirty four petitioners for U.S. citizenship, right, listen to Dennis Langan, of the Exchange Club of Mobile, during a naturalization ceremony in U.S. District Court on Friday, May 17, 2013.

Great festival for children, teenagers and their parents was held last weekend in the capital of Kyrgyzstan.

The lawyer for the family of missing Utah woman Susan Powell said Tuesday that even as local police close the active part of their investigation into her disappearance, federal authorities continue to review the case - a... BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan - Kyrgyzstan's president has reaffirmed that next year the Central Asian nation will evict the U.S. air ... (more)

Last week, Inside the Cocoon wrote about an Atlantic Council-sponsored conference on Kyrgyzstan and the potential for a conflict of interest.

Discussions surrounding potential membership of the Customs Union that currently comprises Belarus, Russia, and Kazakhstan are not new to Kyrgyzstan's public.

Bishkek and Toronto-listed Centerra Gold are engaged in a protracted legal dispute over Kumtor, the largest gold mine operated by a Western company in Central Asia.

Local authorities have increased security measures in Kyrgyzstan's Ala-Buka district in Jalal-Abad Oblast after several dozen Kyrgyz and ethnic Uzbek youths clashed there.

"Meken Sheytteri, Aprel Bairagy and Aikol Ala-Too movements are going to organise a rally during Lukashenka's visit and demand him to extradite former president Kurmanbek Bakiyev to Kyrgyzstan," the movement leader said.

Ashgabat may be the capital of one of the most closed societies in the world and home to Central Asia's most repressive regime, but even here the walls occasionally shake with the sound of rock 'n' roll.

The Chinese Kaidi company's gold-mining operations in the Chon-Alai district have given rise to protests among locals.

The government of Kyrgyzstan plans to take further measures seeking the extradition of the country's former president Kurmanbek Bakiyev and his brother Zhanysh Bakiyev in connection with a verdict of the Military Court.

The epic "Manas" is one of the greatest cultural achievements of the Kyrgyz people.

Officials and lots of citizens in Kyrgyzstan are reeling from the news that the Central Asian nation's most hated son will continue living a free and comfortable life abroad.

A conference focusing on Kyrgyzstan's present problems and future choices threatens to become sidetracked by a conflict-of-interest controversy.

As officials in Kyrgyzstan prepare to negotiate with their country's largest investor in Bishkek this week, new details are emerging about how the Kyrgyz government wants to restructure the agreement covering operations at the country's flagship gold mine.

Gazpromneft-Aero, the Gazprom Neft aviation fuel business operator, has signed a long-term agreement with Turkish Airlines for all of the carrier's flights to be refuelled at Manas International Airport in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

Just over sixty-eight years ago, on May 9, 1945, Nazi Germany capitulated, marking the end of World War Two.

In 2005, the Central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan experienced its own version of the "color revolutions" that had already swept through other parts of the former Soviet Union.