Eleonora Beishenbek-kyzy is a correspondent for RFE/RL Kyrgyz Service.
Kyrgyzstan has published the text of a letter by President Sadyr Japarov to U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, in which the Central Asian nation's leader accused the United States of interfering in his country's internal affairs.
A probe by the Kyrgyz security services has revealed that dozens of government officials and lawmakers may have faked their university diplomas to advance their careers. But critics say the probe is selectively targeting opposition figures.
The arrest of Kyrgyz political activist Mirlan Uraimov over his disparaging Facebook posts is being criticized by many as government pressure on the opposition and freedom of speech. Opposition supporters says it's a warning to government critics, bloggers, and activists.
A UN program that made modern family-planning concepts accessible to many women in Kyrgyzstan two decades ago is ending, leaving those who had come to depend on free contraception in dismay.
A Kyrgyz family had to bury a mother three times in different cemeteries over her choice of faiths, highlighting an all-too-common discrepancy between law and local practice.
Registration has closed for mayoral races in Kyrgyzstan's two largest cities, Bishkek and Osh. In the capital Bishkek, a single candidate will run unopposed in the January 15 race. But in the restive southern city of Osh, two candidates will square off -- including the city's controversial former mayor, Melis Myrzakmatov.
Kyrgyzstan is reeling from the release of a secret video that appears to show the country's grand mufti, Rakhmatulla-Hajji Egemberdiev, in bed with a young woman. The tape is just the latest misadventure to affect a string of scandal-plagued muftis in the Central Asian nation.
Syria has become a magnet for foreign jihadists seeking to wage holy war. RFE/RL correspondents Ron Synovitz and Elenora Beishenbek take a closer look at how an increasing number of Central Asians are being radicalized and recruited to fight there.
A string of online videos has surfaced in recent months portraying Kyrgyz women being brutally assaulted and humiliated. The authors of the clips, which appear to have been shot in Russia, describe themselves as "Kyrgyz patriots" on a mission to punish female migrants for associating with non-Kyrgyz men.
