The normally festive New Year's holidays have lost their sheen this year in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh, where authorities have banned public gatherings and fireworks out of security concerns.
Authorities in Kyrgyzstan say they have foiled an attempted bomb attack in the capital, Bishkek, after discovering a jeep packed with explosives parked outside the main police headquarters.
Two Kyrgyz Army veterans have started a hunger strike in Bishkek to demand overdue social allowances.
The Kyrgyz parliament has elected five deputy speakers.
The Turkish city of Istanbul is hosting a summit bringing together leaders from Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asian countries.
Leaders of Kyrgyz youth organizations have accused the government of failing to fulfill its promise to give young specialists and professionals jobs in government bodies and institutions.
Kyrgyz Prime Minister Almazbek Atambaev’s first trip abroad since he took office last week will be to the Russian capital, Moscow.
Some 60 secondary school teachers picketed the municipal administration building in the town of Batken in southern Kyrgyzstan today in a protest over pay.
Kyrgyz officials say Uzbekistan has reduced natural gas deliveries to Kyrgyzstan's southern regions due to Bishkek's debts.
A court in northern Kyrgyzstan has postponed hearing an appeal by a nephew of ousted President Kurmanbek Bakiev into his 10-year jail sentence for involvement in unrest earlier this year.
Some 600 secondary school and kindergarten teachers today picketed the municipal administration building in Balykchy in Kyrgyzstan's northern Issyk-Kul region in a protest over pay.
Kyrgyzstan has approved a new government, ending more than two months of political uncertainty following October's parliamentary elections. In doing so, the nation has in effect completed its constitutional reform aimed at creating Central Asia's first parliamentary democracy.
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