Anti-government protesters scuffled with vigilante groups in Kyrgyzstan’s capital of Bishkek overnight, after authorities in the Central Asian nation annulled parliamentary election results ...

A view of Bishkek last week (Danil Usmanov) The capital of Kyrgyzstan has been trapped under a dome of dark, gray fumes for about two months. Even when forecasters promise good weather, Bishkek ...

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan, July 28. The next meeting of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council (EIC) will be held on August 14 - 15 this ...

BISHKEK -- When Kyrgyzstan's authorities seized a massive sand quarry on the outskirts of the capital city, locals who had complained for years about excessive dust from the site breathed easier.

The Kyrgyz capital, which had been renamed Frunze -- after Bolshevik leader Mikhail Frunze -- during the Soviet era, reinstated its original name, Bishkek, in 1991.

BISHKEK, October 10. /TASS/. The Commandant’s Office of the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek imposed a curfew in the city and banned rallies amid riots, the capital’s Interior Department reported on ...

An agreement to build a power plant in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek reinforces the notion that one person’s trash is another’s treasure. The Chinese firm that started construction on the $95-million ...

Authorities in the second-largest city in Kyrgyzstan, Osh, have removed a towering statue of Vladimir Lenin thought to be the tallest of the revolutionary Soviet leader in Central Asia. The 23 ...

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan, March 23 -- Kyrgyz police violently broke up an anti-government protest in the capital on Wednesday, and the newly appointed security chief told opponents of President Askar ...

Tolkun Umaraliev reports that there will be a rally against the death penalty tomorrow in Bishkek. Global Voices stands out as one of the earliest and strongest examples of how media committed to ...