Kyrgyzstan News

NOBODY is disappointed, and all sides get what they need. That definition of a good deal fits the recent agreement to renew the US leasing of an air base in Kyrgyzstan that serves as a key transport hub for troops and equipment going to Afghanistan.

Porous border makes country's south vulnerable to incursions, experts say. By Ainagul Abdrakhmanova in Bishkek and Abdraim Ysmanov in Jalalabad Kyrgyzstan's porous southern border, compounded by the inability of its under-funded security forces to patrol it adequately, is helping make the country a destination for Islamic militants who are believed ...

Kazakhstan, Astana, July 7 / Trend News K. Konyrova /

IV congress of world mathematical society of Turkic countries will be held in Azerbaijan, press-service of Kazakh national university named after al-Farabi told Trend News. III congress of world mathematical society of Turkic countries was held one of these days.

Kyrgyzstan has signed an agreement allowing the United States to continue using a key air base serving U.S. aircraft in operations in Afghanistan, according to a presidential spokesman, Reuters reported.

Azerbaijan, Baku, July 7 /Trend News, A.Husyenbala/

Permanent Secretariat of the Turkic-speaking countries' Parlaimentary Assembly (PA) will be located in Baku.

Highest cargo transit rate among CIS countries has been repeatedly registered in Kyrgyzstan, the Interstate Statistical Committee of the Commonwealth of Independent States reported.

"Kyrgyzstan pays little attention to preventive medicine," the President of Kyrgyzstan Kurmanbek Bakiev said at the celebration of Medical Workers' Day on Monday, "24.kg" reported.

Director of the Kyrgyz Central Election Commission Damir Lisovsky says issuance of ballot-papers for presidential election to run in Kyrgyzstan on July 23, 2009 is completed, "24.kg" reported.

Training attack to neutralize the conditional terrorists. Kyrgyzstan, Chon-Tash village, photo by Elena Skochilo.

Kyrgyz police officers shot dead another armed man in Osh Province, bringing to nine the number of alleged Islamic militants killed since June 23.

Kyrgyzstan's corruption ranks 166th among 180 most corrupt countries of the world, Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia at Transparency International Miklos Marshall said meeting with journalists on Friday, "24.kg" reported.

"About 65 percent of couples in Kyrgyzstan prefer not to legalize their relations and live in civil marriages," Suiun Kurmanova, leader of the Legal Settling of Family Relations in Kyrgyzstan project implemented by the anticrisis center Sezim told the news agency "24.kg".

Closing show of the international Kyrgyzstan-France-Germany film festival will take place in Bishkek. The Festival's Echo screening, scheduled for the night of July 3, will run in the Bishkek Film House, Gulbara Tolomusheva, one of the event organizers informed the news agency 24.kg.

An earthquake measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale hit the China-Kyrgyzstan border Wednesday, the seismological network in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region said, Xinhua reported.

Participation of Kyrgyz Prime Minister Igor Chudinov in the International Economic Forum in Switzerland resulted into signing of program for development of trade in the Kyrgyz Republic. With the document signed Switzerland issues Kyrgyzstan sufficient funds for the program implementation, "24.kg" reported.

Eni Faleomavaega a member of the United States Congress has arrived in Bishkek, press service of the U.S. Embassy in Bishkek informs, "24.kg" reported.

Police in Kyrgyzstan shot dead a suspected Islamist militant who threw a grenade at them in the latest in a rash of armed clashes that has shattered a three-year lull, the Interior Ministry said on Tuesday, Reuters reported.

Azerbaijan, Baku, June 29 /Trend News, E.Tariverdiyeva, V.Zhavoronkova/

Kyrgyzstan has coordinated its actions on the Manas American military base with Russia, said Leonid Gusev, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Eastern Asia and SCO at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

BISHKEK: The leader of a group of militants killed last week by Kyrgyz security forces was trained in Pakistan, officials said on Monday.

Security forces in Kyrgyzstan have killed three men they believe were militants from an Islamist group, a state security official said on Sunday, Reuters reported.