http://www.rferl.org/archive/Kyrgyzstan/latest/652/663.html RFE/RL's latest news, features, commentary, and multimedia content on Kyrgyzstan http://www.rferl.org/img/rssLogo.gif http://www.rferl.org/archive/Kyrgyzstan/latest/652/663.html en-US Copyright 2009 - RFE/RL, Inc. 60 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:34:44 +0000 Pangea CMS – RFE/RL The official number of swine-flu cases in Kyrgyzstan has been put at 61, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Kyrgyzstan_Braces_For_SwineFlu_Outbreak/1883861.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Kyrgyzstan_Braces_For_SwineFlu_Outbreak/1883861.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:34:23 +0000 From Our Bureaus A Tajik Foreign Ministry official says the borders between Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan should be demined as soon as possible, RFE/RL's Tajik Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Central_Asian_Countries_Seek_To_Demine_Border_Areas/1884747.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Central_Asian_Countries_Seek_To_Demine_Border_Areas/1884747.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:10:09 +0000 From Our Bureaus The Kyrgyz parliament has approved amendments to a law that bans smoking in state institutions, at entrances to multistory buildings, and in all public places. http://www.rferl.org/content/Kyrgyzstan_Moves_To_Ban_Smoking_In_Public_Places/1883364.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Kyrgyzstan_Moves_To_Ban_Smoking_In_Public_Places/1883364.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:45:16 +0000 From Our Bureaus Kyrgyzstan deported a foreign human rights activist investigating accusations of abuse against Muslims in the Central Asian state, campaigners said today. http://www.rferl.org/content/Kyrgyzstan_Deports_Human_Rights_Activist/1882452.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Kyrgyzstan_Deports_Human_Rights_Activist/1882452.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:33:16 +0000 From Our Bureaus http://www.rferl.org/content/Kyrgyzstan_Deports_Human_Rights_Activist/1882452.html#relatedInfoContainer Kyrgyz pro-presidential Ak-Jol (Bright Path) party has approved a provision that would require its diplomats to understand the Kyrgyz language, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Ruling_Party_Passes_Provision_Promoting_Kyrgyz_Language/1882251.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Ruling_Party_Passes_Provision_Promoting_Kyrgyz_Language/1882251.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:50:08 +0000 From Our Bureaus HRW is urging the government of Kyrgyzstan to release two human rights activists investigating rights abuses in the south of the country. http://www.rferl.org/content/HRW_Calls_For_Kyrgyz_Govt_To_Release_Activists/1881882.html http://www.rferl.org/content/HRW_Calls_For_Kyrgyz_Govt_To_Release_Activists/1881882.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:22:23 +0000 News http://www.rferl.org/content/HRW_Calls_For_Kyrgyz_Govt_To_Release_Activists/1881882.html#relatedInfoContainer Kyrgyz opposition leader Omurbek Tekebaev says the government will use increased payments from steep rises in utility prices to repay a $30 million World Bank loan, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Kyrgyz_Opposition_Says_Utility_Hikes_Will_Repay_World_Bank_Loan_/1881826.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Kyrgyz_Opposition_Says_Utility_Hikes_Will_Repay_World_Bank_Loan_/1881826.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:35:21 +0000 From Our Bureaus A Kyrgyz opposition leader says President Kurmanbek Bakiev has brought nepotism back to the country, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Kyrgyz_Opposition_Leader_Blames_President_For_Nepotism_/1881820.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Kyrgyz_Opposition_Leader_Blames_President_For_Nepotism_/1881820.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:26:30 +0000 From Our Bureaus The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) has begun a third round of discussions in Almaty about upcoming counterterrorism exercises, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Uzbeks_Skip_Regional_Security_Meeting_In_Kazakhstan/1881390.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Uzbeks_Skip_Regional_Security_Meeting_In_Kazakhstan/1881390.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:03:24 +0000 From Our Bureaus The Kyrgyz opposition Ata-Meken (Fatherland) party is calling on citizens to protest against government plans to increase public utility prices, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Kyrgyz_Opposition_Urges_Protests_Against_Utility_Increases/1880807.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Kyrgyz_Opposition_Urges_Protests_Against_Utility_Increases/1880807.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:57:13 +0000 From Our Bureaus The director of Bishkek's Manas airport has been hospitalized after being attacked by unknown assailants, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Kyrgyz_Airport_Director_Hospitalized_After_Beating/1879757.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Kyrgyz_Airport_Director_Hospitalized_After_Beating/1879757.html Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:47:01 +0000 From Our Bureaus More than 10 years since Kyrgyzstan became the first Central Asian state to suspend the death penalty, arguments for reinstating the punishment are gaining traction. http://www.rferl.org/content/Pressure_Grows_In_Kyrgyzstan_For_Return_Of_Death_Penalty/1879349.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Pressure_Grows_In_Kyrgyzstan_For_Return_Of_Death_Penalty/1879349.html Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:11:05 +0000 Features http://www.rferl.org/content/Pressure_Grows_In_Kyrgyzstan_For_Return_Of_Death_Penalty/1879349.html#relatedInfoContainer Dozens of people joined a rally by the nongovernmental organization Birimdik (Unity) in the Kyrgyz city of Naryn on November 13 to protest the government's decision to increase the price of utilities as of January 1, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Dozens_In_Kyrgyzstan_Protest_Utility_Price_Hike__/1878184.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Dozens_In_Kyrgyzstan_Protest_Utility_Price_Hike__/1878184.html Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:41:14 +0000 From Our Bureaus A Bishkek district court resumed hearings into the case against former Foreign Minister Alikbek Jekshenkulov today, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Kyrgyz_Opposition_Politicians_Trial_Resumes/1877711.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Kyrgyz_Opposition_Politicians_Trial_Resumes/1877711.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:39:17 +0000 From Our Bureaus The World Health Organization (WHO) says antiviral medicines like Tamiflu should be used much earlier by doctors in order to prevent deaths from swine flu. The UN agency also says it is sending more supplies of antivirals to developing countries most affected by swine flu. Those countries include Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, and Ukraine. http://www.rferl.org/content/Amplifier_WHO_Urges_Doctors_To_Use_Antiviral_Drugs_Sooner_To_Prevent_Swine_Flu_Deaths/1877353.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Amplifier_WHO_Urges_Doctors_To_Use_Antiviral_Drugs_Sooner_To_Prevent_Swine_Flu_Deaths/1877353.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:10:01 +0000 News http://www.rferl.org/content/Amplifier_WHO_Urges_Doctors_To_Use_Antiviral_Drugs_Sooner_To_Prevent_Swine_Flu_Deaths/1877353.html#relatedInfoContainer Before the autumn revolutions in Eastern Europe, there was the Moscow Spring in the Soviet Union. In 1989, Mikhail Gorbachev's reform policies hit their high-water mark, as the USSR held its first competitive elections, press freedom flourished, and civil society awakened. http://www.rferl.org/content/Revolutions_of_89_The_Moscow_Spring/1876450.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Revolutions_of_89_The_Moscow_Spring/1876450.html Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:14:45 +0000 Features http://www.rferl.org/content/Revolutions_of_89_The_Moscow_Spring/1876450.html#relatedInfoContainer The number of swine flu patients in Kyrgyzstan has reached 27, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Kyrgyzstan_Reports_More_Swine_Flu_Infections_But_No_Deaths/1875149.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Kyrgyzstan_Reports_More_Swine_Flu_Infections_But_No_Deaths/1875149.html Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:26:24 +0000 From Our Bureaus Former Kyrgyz President Askar Akaev celebrated his 65th birthday on November 10 in self-imposed exile in Moscow, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Ousted_Kyrgyz_President_Marks_65th_Birthday_In_Exile/1875120.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Ousted_Kyrgyz_President_Marks_65th_Birthday_In_Exile/1875120.html Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:10:15 +0000 From Our Bureaus The suspects were detained in Moscow Oblast's Ramen district and charged in the murder of a 40-year-old Kyrgyz man who was found stabbed to death on November 3 in a forest near the Russian town of Rybkhoz. http://www.rferl.org/content/Moscow_Police_Arrest_Two_In_Killing_Of_Kyrgyz_Man/1874419.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Moscow_Police_Arrest_Two_In_Killing_Of_Kyrgyz_Man/1874419.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:54:41 +0000 From Our Bureaus Some 2,000 Kazakhs are planning to go on the hajj -- the holy pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia -- despite the swine flu epidemic, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Kazakhs_To_Make_Hajj_While_Turkmen_Will_Stay_Home__/1873451.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Kazakhs_To_Make_Hajj_While_Turkmen_Will_Stay_Home__/1873451.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:32:49 +0000 From Our Bureaus Many people in the southern Kyrgyz region of Batken are changing their family names back to their Soviet-era, Russified surnames, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Kyrgyz_Migrants_Returning_To_Russified_Surnames/1872499.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Kyrgyz_Migrants_Returning_To_Russified_Surnames/1872499.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:39:39 +0000 From Our Bureaus A court in Turkmenistan has overturned a five-year jail sentence handed down last week to a biologist whose environmental organization was shut down by the state in 2003. The case marks the second time in three years that Andrei Zatoka has been sentenced and detained before being released, and highlights the difficulties activists commonly encounter in Central Asia. http://www.rferl.org/content/Turkmen_Case_Highlights_Plight_Of_Activists_In_Central_Asia/1871275.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Turkmen_Case_Highlights_Plight_Of_Activists_In_Central_Asia/1871275.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:13:52 +0000 Features http://www.rferl.org/content/Turkmen_Case_Highlights_Plight_Of_Activists_In_Central_Asia/1871275.html#relatedInfoContainer When Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiev put the finishing touches on his restructured government last week, he entrusted the country's future economic course to a person he has known for decades -- his youngest son, Maksim Bakiev. http://www.rferl.org/content/With_First_Sons_New_Role_Kyrgyz_Government_Remains_A_Family_Affair/1870575.html http://www.rferl.org/content/With_First_Sons_New_Role_Kyrgyz_Government_Remains_A_Family_Affair/1870575.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:38:59 +0000 Features http://www.rferl.org/content/With_First_Sons_New_Role_Kyrgyz_Government_Remains_A_Family_Affair/1870575.html#relatedInfoContainer Kyrgyz journalist Kubanychbek Joldoshev says an attack that left him hospitalized with a concussion was politically motivated, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Beaten_Kyrgyz_Journalist_Recounts_Brutal_Attack_Against_Him/1870052.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Beaten_Kyrgyz_Journalist_Recounts_Brutal_Attack_Against_Him/1870052.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:32:22 +0000 From Our Bureaus http://www.rferl.org/content/Beaten_Kyrgyz_Journalist_Recounts_Brutal_Attack_Against_Him/1870052.html#relatedInfoContainer Last week’s announcement that the next Russian census will be held in 2010 as originally scheduled is welcome news indeed. There had been considerable speculation that the census had been delayed largely for political reasons, and it is encouraging to think that the opinions of experts who say the census information is crucially needed were heeded in this case. http://www.rferl.org/content/Russia_Is_Dying_To_Learn_Its_Census_Data/1869329.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Russia_Is_Dying_To_Learn_Its_Census_Data/1869329.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:38:55 +0000 Commentary http://www.rferl.org/content/Russia_Is_Dying_To_Learn_Its_Census_Data/1869329.html#relatedInfoContainer The chief of Kyrgyzstan's military medical service has testified in support of former Defense Minister Ismail Isakov at his trial in Bishkek, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Witnesses_Testify_In_Support_Of_Former_Kyrgyz_Minister/1868497.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Witnesses_Testify_In_Support_Of_Former_Kyrgyz_Minister/1868497.html Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:40:23 +0000 From Our Bureaus Kyrgyz journalist Kubanychbek Joldoshev was beaten by unknown assailants and hospitalized in Osh on November 2, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Kyrgyz_Journalist_Recovering_After_Being_Beaten_In_Osh/1867497.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Kyrgyz_Journalist_Recovering_After_Being_Beaten_In_Osh/1867497.html Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:36:35 +0000 From Our Bureaus http://www.rferl.org/content/Kyrgyz_Journalist_Recovering_After_Being_Beaten_In_Osh/1867497.html#relatedInfoContainer The bodies of two ethnic Kyrgyz men killed in Moscow earlier this month will be transferred to Kyrgyzstan, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Bodies_Of_Murdered_Kyrgyz_To_Be_Sent_Home_From_Moscow_/1866085.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Bodies_Of_Murdered_Kyrgyz_To_Be_Sent_Home_From_Moscow_/1866085.html Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:05:37 +0000 From Our Bureaus Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiev has appointed his son as the head of the central agency for development, investment, and innovations, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Kyrgyz_President_Appoints_Son_To_Government_Position_/1865071.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Kyrgyz_President_Appoints_Son_To_Government_Position_/1865071.html Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:48:04 +0000 From Our Bureaus Kyrgyzstan plans to pay its debt for Uzbek natural gas by December 1, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports. Deputy Prime Minister Akylbek Japarov told RFE/RL that the gas debt will be discussed by the Kyrgyz parliament on October 30. http://www.rferl.org/content/Kyrgyzstan_To_Pay_Gas_Debt_To_Uzbekistan_/1864592.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Kyrgyzstan_To_Pay_Gas_Debt_To_Uzbekistan_/1864592.html Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:37:33 +0000 From Our Bureaus Kyrgyzstan's Interior Ministry says that a second suspect is being sought in the 2007 murder of independent journalist Alisher Saipov, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Kyrgyz_Police_Seeking_Second_Suspect_In_Journalists_Killing/1861617.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Kyrgyz_Police_Seeking_Second_Suspect_In_Journalists_Killing/1861617.html Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:11:35 +0000 From Our Bureaus