To mark International Children's Day on June 1, RFE/RL asked kids around our broadcast region: What makes you happy?
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has urged Kyrgyzstan to review a draft law on "foreign agents" that could have a negative impact on many rights groups being active in the country.
Human Rights Watch has called on Kyrgyz deputies to reject a bill requiring domestic NGOs that receive foreign funding and engage in "political activities" to register as "foreign agents."
Kyrgyzstan's president has signed a law ratifying treaties on his country's accession to the Eurasian Economic Union (EES).
Several antigay activists in Kyrgyzstan have been charged with hooliganism after they disrupted an LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) community event in Bishkek.
Plans by LGBT activists to celebrate a day against homophobia in Kyrgyzstan were spoiled when their party at a trendy Bishkek restaurant was ruined by nationalist, wannabe gay-wedding crashers.
Qishloq Ovozi is proud to present the fifth in a series of short films -- People of Two Lands: The Kyrgyz of Jerge-Tal -- about the Kyrgyz of northern Tajikistan.
In the final video from Janyl Jusupjan's series of short films about the lives of ethnic Kyrgyz in the town of Jerge-Tal in northern Tajikistan, we meet Gulnaz, a housewife and mother who decided to leave and try her luck in Kyrgyzstan.
Uzbek President Islam Karimov seemed to have problems articulating his thoughts at his April 10 inauguration ceremony. In the interest of balance, it should now be pointed out that Karimov seemed to have no trouble expressing himself at the May 8 informal CIS summit in Moscow.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has predicted that Uzbekistan will see 7.5 percent GDP growth this year. But the May 13 IMF press release raises a number of questions.
Kyrgyz officials say Uzbek border guards have shot dead a Kyrgyz national and detained another near the border between the two Central Asian nations.
There has been a lot of trouble across northern Afghanistan in recent months and one reason is the arrival of militants from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU).
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