Officials in Central Asia insist they will continue the practice of ushering in a Western-style New Year's with parties, decorated trees, and Father Frost despite scattered calls to discard those Soviet-era traditions.
One year ago this month, Roza Otunbaeva stepped down as president of Kyrgyzstan. Now she’s onto a new life of running her own foundation aimed at solving Kyrygzstan’s social problems, but she hasn’t ruled out a return to politics someday.
Kyrgyzgaz, the state-controlled natural-gas company in Kyrgyzstan, has announced that it will be sold in its entirety to Russia's Gazprom.
The United States has imposed financial sanctions on a Georgian-born "key member" of the Brothers' Circle Eurasian crime syndicate.
Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka says member countries of the Collective Treaty Security Organization (CSTO) have accepted Uzbekistan's decision to suspend its membership.
A Canadian-based mining company operating in Kyrgyzstan says the $152-million claim from the Central Asian nation for environmental damages caused by a gold field it is developing is exaggerated and without foundation.
Kyrgyz authorities say criminal cases were launched in late October against two leading Muslim clerics.
Kyrgyzstan's parliament has ratified an agreement for a Russian military base to remain on Kyrgyz territory for 15 years, with an option for a five-year extension.
Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka raised eyebrows at a meeting with journalists on December 11 when he called on Kyrgyz authorities to pay a pension to exiled former leader Kurmanbek Bakiev.
Kyrgyz lawmakers have resumed the debate over a bill to increase the maximum prison term for bride kidnapping from three to seven years.
A Kyrgyz national who is on a U.S. list of global drug kingpins has been extradited to Bishkek from the United Arab Emirates.
A new monument to prominent Kyrgyz opposition journalist Gennady Pavlyuk has been unveiled in Bishkek.
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