Kyrgyz lawmakers and officials in the capital Bishkek prove that politics can sometimes be a joke.
Kyrgyz Interior Minister Zarylbek Rysaliev says two gunmen killed near Bishkek this week were behind a recent bomb blast in Bishkek and had been planning further attacks in the capital.
Kyrgyzstan says emigration from the country rose by 10 percent last year, partly due to the departure of some 40,000 ethnic Uzbeks following ethnic clashes in June in the southern regions of Osh and Jalal-Abad.
Two suspects in the killing of three policemen have been killed during a security operation in a village just outside Bishkek.
All Muslim clergymen in Kyrgyzstan are to be vetted this year by a special commission to determine whether their knowledge of the Islamic faith is commensurate with the positions they occupy.
Security Council Secretary Marat Imankulov was relieved of that post and appointed first deputy chairman of the State Committee for National Security (SCNS) and simultaneously the director of the counterterrorism center.
A teachers union in Kyrgyzstan has given the government until the end of January to comply with teachers' demand for a fourfold salary increase or face the prospect of a countrywide strike.
President Roza Otunbaeva presented the Dank (Glory) medal to Tolekan Ismailova and Aziza Abdrasulova at the presidential office in Bishkek for their contribution to democracy and the improvement of human rights.
Authorities in Kyrgyzstan say nine people have been detained in connection with a foiled bomb attack in Bishkek at the weekend, and a blast in the capital last month that injured four people.
Kyrgyz President Roza Otunbaeva spoke to RFE/RL about the next stage in her career.
A top Kyrgyz Interior Ministry official says a brother of the ousted president, being tried in absentia in connection with the deaths of antigovernment protesters, has been sighted in several Kyrgyz cities.
When Kyrgyz opposition leader Roza Otunbaeva rose to the helm of her country’s government following the April overthrow of former President Kurmanbek Bakiev, she came sporting a squeaky-clean political reputation. She tells RFE/RL her country is now undertaking its own clean-up process, which includes addressing and adapting to new political realities.
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