"Our village is called Paris, and in Paris there's an Eiffel Tower,"said Nurzhan Kubatbekov, Kyrgyzstan's answer to Gustave Eiffel, who paid $14,000 for the replica. Although 20 times smaller than ...

Farida Japarova, a 56-year-old resident of Maksat, a village on Kyrgyzstan’s fraught border with Tajikistan, barely had enough time to get used to her new home before it was burned down a second time.

In recent years, floods have forced out 30 families of nearly 300 households in Ak-Terek, a small village in Kyrgyzstan's southern Batken Province. Residents say they have never experienced such ...

As part of the agreement, the village of Dostuk in Kyrgyzstan will be transferred to Tajikistan in exchange for territory of equal size. Residents of Dostuk requested and are to be granted ...

“If we continue this way, the city of Bishkek will turn into a big village. Instead of wasting billions of U.S. dollars to build a new city, why not repair Bishkek city?" he asked. As a member ...

TASH-BASHAT, Kyrgyzstan (AP) — The political turmoil that has gripped Kyrgyzstan hasn't reached the quiet village of Tash-Bashat in the mountains near the capital, where residents talk about the ...

One 53-year-old man from the Kyrgyz village of Bakai – almost entirely ... of unlawful attacks and their families deserve justice. Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan should urgently investigate all ...

Kyrgyz, Tajik leaders meet, agree on ceasefire Fighting escalated from shootouts to tanks and rocket artillery Kyrgyzstan says Tajik troops entered Kyrgyz village Conflict stems from disputed ...

Kyrgyzstan, December 2022. Image by Monica Pelliccia for Mongabay. Both Sasukilov and Balasy now keep bees in Shamshy, a village of 1,000 inhabitants that’s a 90-minute drive from the capital ...