Kyrgyzstan

First someone bugged Bolot Temirov’s apartment. Then police raided his office and allegedly planted drugs on him. Now,...

Initially, museum administrators said that only a few worthless objects had been lost. Then, in an earlier investigation,...

Kyrgyz authorities accused investigative journalist Bolot Temirov on Tuesday of forging documents and illegally crossing...

For years, Russia’s big cities have been a source of employment and income for the people of Central Asia and the Caucasus....

The Kyrgyz presidency is expected to propose new and amended laws that will allow citizens to legalize their illegally...

He fled the country, was accused of corruption, and declared wanted. But his wife was still able to maintain at least one...

Tightening the noose on independent media, the Kyrgyzstan government proposed on Monday a new procedure that would allow the...

Describing themselves as “activists” and “bloggers,” four people held a press conference in Kyrgyzstan on Tuesday calling...

A leading independent journalist says police planted drugs on him as retribution for his exposés of corruption. But that was...

Dozens of people protested on Sunday outside the interior ministry headquarters in Bishkek against the arrests of a poet and...

The former president — laying low since the country plunged into protest and violence in early January — hid banks, hotels,...

Imon International, Tajikistan’s most prominent microlender, was built over two decades to help women entrepreneurs. Its...