Kyrgyzstan’s parliament should reject two draft laws currently under discussion that would restrict freedom of speech and the work of the mass media, Human Rights Watch said today.

Police in the Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan have arrested and charged seven people on suspicion of organising mass riots to overthrow the government ahead of local elections on Sunday.

Demonstrators marching in Bishkek on October 24 in solidarity with arrested civic activists. (Photo: Danil Usmanov) Authorities in Kyrgyzstan are planning to push through legislation that would enable ...

A man sorts through the wreckage of his home in Kapchygai. Farida Japarova, a 56-year-old resident of Maksat, a village on Kyrgyzstan’s fraught border with Tajikistan, barely had enough time to get ...

Kyrgyzstan has not been informed by the United States of possible action against Kyrgyz companies, a senior Kyrgyz official said, after a U.S. paper said Washington was considering such a move to ...

Kyrgyzstan's Vehicle Reexport Boom Faces Headwinds By RFE/RL staff - Jan 21, 2024, 12:00 PM CST ...