Kyrgyzstan's opposition Ata-Meken (Fatherland) party has established an award named after journalist Gennady Pavlyuk, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports.
As EU president for the first six months of 2010, Spain will focus on strengthening relations with Central Asia, one analyst believes.
Analysts say that agreements on water resources were also part of the new gas deal agreed to between Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan for lower energy prices next year, RFE/RL's Uzbek Service reports.
Kyrgyz Defense Minister Bakyt Kalyev has said a NATO office for Central Asia will be established in Bishkek, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports.
A Kyrgyz court today sentenced the pilots of an aircraft that crashed near Bishkek last year to five years in prison, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports.
Russian police have freed 15 Kyrgyz children who were forced to work in an underground factory in Moscow Oblast, RFE/RL's Russian Service reports.
A reporter who covered the murder of a leading Kyrgyz opposition journalist this month was found dead in Kazakhstan over the weekend, police said today.
A court in the northeastern Kyrgyz town of Balykchi has sentenced four people to four years in jail each for holding an illegal protest during last July's presidential elections.
The Kyrgyz Parliament's Economic Issues Committee has approved a draft law that would ban the use of right-hand drive cars as taxis, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports.
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe urged Kyrgyzstan today to prevent attacks on journalists after a leading opposition reporter was killed in neighboring Kazakhstan this month.
Murataaly-Hajji Jumanov, the chief mufti of the Kyrgyz Spiritual Directorate, also said in Bishkek today that a total of 4,782 Kyrgyz visited the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, for the hajj that was held this year from November 25-29.
Prominent Kyrgyz journalist Gennady Pavlyuk has died nearly a week after he was thrown from the window of a high-rise building in Kazakhstan's largest city. Pavlyuk's body was discovered outside an apartment block in Almaty on December 16. His feet and hands were bound.
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