Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambaev says no military equipment should remain at Manas airport after most NATO-led troops withdraw from Afghanistan by the end of 2014.
Kyrgyz media is reporting that Uzbekistan has started paying compensation to some Kyrgyz citizens for property damage incurred during the violence in and around Uzbekistan's Sokh district earlier this month.
A senior U.S. diplomat is paying visits to the Central Asian nations of Turkmenistan and Kyrgyzstan.
A suspect has been arrested in connection with last week's killing of a high-ranking anticorruption police officer in Kyrgyzstan's southern region of Osh.
A trial has begun of three opposition members of the Kyrgyz parliament facing charges of sedition.
On January 6, residents of the Sokh district, an Uzbek exclave located within Kyrgyzstan and populated by ethnic Tajiks, clashed with guards at a Kyrgyz border post and briefly took dozens of Kyrgyz hostage. The tensions have died down, but the Kyrgyz residents of the region say the disputed border makes incidents like this one all too common. (RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service)
In Kyrgyzstan's southern Osh region, a dispute over a theft turned into a clash between more than 100 local citizens and Chinese workers.
All border posts around Uzbekistan's Sokh exclave inside Kyrgyzstan remain closed.
Russian President Vladimir Putin's premier foreign-policy initiative, the Eurasian Customs Union, is showing unprecedented vitality. But the European Union says membership in the ECU is incompatible with closer economic ties with the EU. This confronts many former Soviet states -- especially Ukraine and Moldova -- with a stark choice.
Kyrgyz and Uzbek authorities have agreed to conduct a joint investigation into this week's hostage-taking incident in Uzbekistan's Sokh district, when clashes broke out as power lines were being installed to a Kyrgyz border post.
Dozens of Kyrgyz citizens have been released after they were taken hostage in the Uzbek exclave of Sokh, located within Kyrgyzstan's Batken Province and populated mainly by ethnic Tajiks. Several of the victims described their ordeal to RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service as they were receiving treatment for their injuries at the Batken District Hospital.
Sokh district, a small pocket of Uzbek territory within Kyrgyzstan, has been the scene of low-level violence and bilateral tension since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Following an outbreak of violence on January 5-6, RFE/RL takes a brief look at the history of this territory and some of the contentious issues it presents for Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.
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