With payment deadlines approaching, Bishkek is considering some drastic options to pay its debt to Beijing.
A day in the life of a Bishkek bakery, which makes a moist fluffy bread with a crispy crust that is central to the Kyrgyz way of life.
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A statue of Soviet secret police founder Feliks Dzerzhinsky may return to the square outside the former KGB headquarters -- or be replaced, 30 years after its removal in 1991, by a monument to 13th century prince Aleksandr Nevsky. Either way, it's a sign of the Putin era.
A murky, mostly unregulated online subculture where people perform lewd, alcohol-fueled challenges for viewer donations has gained fans and notoriety in Russia. But a spate of recent deaths and violent assaults on air has prompted Russian authorities to rein the practice in.
An assassination attempt made Aleksei Navalny into a globally recognized dissident, a Russian opposition leader whom German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited in the hospital and who collaborated with leading Western news outlets in investigating the near-fatal poisoning he blames on the Kremlin.
Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny has lost his place as an Amnesty International "prisoner of conscience" due to past comments deemed "hate speech," but the designation continues to carry weight around the world.
Is Aleksei Navalny good for Ukraine, or would he be? That's a question many are asking as the jailed Russian activist is in the spotlight.
Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili says the political crisis sparked by the arrest of opposition leader Nika Melia has deep roots.
Historical photos show the royal Russian statues that were consigned to the "dustbin of history" after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution.
Millions of Bulgarians took state-subsidized holidays under communism. Now, only government employees can do it.
With elections expected in September shaping up as a big test for President Vladimir Putin and United Russia, students in Siberia say a university official has been recruiting them with promises of money and academic benefits for posting positive comments about the ruling party on social media.
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