Kyrgyzstan News

Discussions surrounding potential membership of the Customs Union that currently comprises Belarus, Russia, and Kazakhstan are not new to Kyrgyzstan's public.

Bishkek and Toronto-listed Centerra Gold are engaged in a protracted legal dispute over Kumtor, the largest gold mine operated by a Western company in Central Asia.

Local authorities have increased security measures in Kyrgyzstan's Ala-Buka district in Jalal-Abad Oblast after several dozen Kyrgyz and ethnic Uzbek youths clashed there.

"Meken Sheytteri, Aprel Bairagy and Aikol Ala-Too movements are going to organise a rally during Lukashenka's visit and demand him to extradite former president Kurmanbek Bakiyev to Kyrgyzstan," the movement leader said.

Ashgabat may be the capital of one of the most closed societies in the world and home to Central Asia's most repressive regime, but even here the walls occasionally shake with the sound of rock 'n' roll.

The Chinese Kaidi company's gold-mining operations in the Chon-Alai district have given rise to protests among locals.

The government of Kyrgyzstan plans to take further measures seeking the extradition of the country's former president Kurmanbek Bakiyev and his brother Zhanysh Bakiyev in connection with a verdict of the Military Court.

The epic "Manas" is one of the greatest cultural achievements of the Kyrgyz people.

Officials and lots of citizens in Kyrgyzstan are reeling from the news that the Central Asian nation's most hated son will continue living a free and comfortable life abroad.

A conference focusing on Kyrgyzstan's present problems and future choices threatens to become sidetracked by a conflict-of-interest controversy.

As officials in Kyrgyzstan prepare to negotiate with their country's largest investor in Bishkek this week, new details are emerging about how the Kyrgyz government wants to restructure the agreement covering operations at the country's flagship gold mine.

Gazpromneft-Aero, the Gazprom Neft aviation fuel business operator, has signed a long-term agreement with Turkish Airlines for all of the carrier's flights to be refuelled at Manas International Airport in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

Just over sixty-eight years ago, on May 9, 1945, Nazi Germany capitulated, marking the end of World War Two.

In 2005, the Central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan experienced its own version of the "color revolutions" that had already swept through other parts of the former Soviet Union.

U.S. military officers show Kyrgyz journalists the Manas air base. , that's when such incidents become political symbols that can turn public opinion against the basing presence and even damage the future of the relationship.

The Transport Prosecutor's Office of Kyrgyzstan commenced a criminal case on the crash of a KC-135 Stratotanker aerial tanker of the United States in Chui province on May 3, the supervisory authority told KyrTAG.

Plus, who gets the blame for letting thousands of Czech convicts free and a poor Latvian town looks to Rothko for a boost.

An American military refueling plane carrying three crew members crashed Friday in the rugged mountains of Kyrgyzstan, the Central Asian nation where the U.S. operates an air base key to the war in Afghanistan.

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Capt. Mark T. "Tyler" Voss, 27, Capt. Victoria "Tori" A. Pinckney, 27, both from Colorado Springs, were two of three airmen killed May 3 when a KC-135 refueling plane went down outside Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.