The Kyrgyz prosecutor-general has officially requested that Irish authorities extradite former Energy Minister Saparbek Balkybekov.
Two major checkpoints on the Kyrgyz-Chinese border will be closed from January 31-February 8 for the Chinese New Year holiday.
The chairman of the international commission investigating last year's deadly ethnic clashes in southern Kyrgyzstan says his group's report will be issued in March. The clashes led to the deaths of at least 426 people, while tens of thousands were forcibly evicted from their homes.
Kyrgyz prosecutors have said they want a longer sentence for a nephew of ousted President Kurmanbek Bakiev who was convicted of involvement in deadly unrest in southern Kyrgyzstan last year.
An alleged member of the banned Hizb ut-Tahrir organization has been arrested in Kyrgyzstan's southern Jalal-Abad region. A Jalal-Abad Oblast official told journalists a 29-year-old resident of Kara-Kol was detained January 26. Police stopped the suspect's car and found dozens of books and leaflets of extremist religious content.
An opposition party in the Kyrgyz parliament has protested a government proposal to name a mountain peak after Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
Central Asia's economies have to become more diversified and competitive if they are to attract more foreign investment, says a report by a major global economic group being presented at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
Human Rights Watch is urging the Kyrgyz Supreme Court to overturn what it feels is a miscarriage of justice in a murder case from last year's ethnic violence in the south.
Kyrgyz Deputy Interior Minister Melis Turganbaev said Saparbek Balkybekov was detained at the house of one of his relatives in Dublin. He is wanted on an international arrest warrant. There was no confirmation from Irish police.
A hearing into the shooting deaths of six Kyrgyz protesters nearly a decade ago that began on January 20 in a Bishkek military court has been postponed.
Kyrgyz security forces have found an illegal arms workshop during a special operation in the village of Kara-Suu, near the southern town of Osh. Police say the owner of the workshop and his employees were modifying air rifles for use as assault rifles. They discovered the workshop on January 23.
Kyrgyzstan is preparing rigorous reforms to purge its mosques of corruption, religious illiteracy, and extremism. The reforms come at a time when the mosque is seen as a source of both reconciliation and division, particularly in the country's south.
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