The media in Central Asia has effectively been under fire since the five countries there became independent in late 1991. But pressure on non-state media is always stronger when the region's governments are having a hard time, and these are hard times for Central Asia, which has been experiencing an economic downturn in recent months.
The commission that oversees Islamic schools in Kyrgyzstan has begun a process that is expected to force most of the headmasters out of their jobs. The Religious Certification Commission has required that teachers and headmasters at the country's madrasahs appear before an formal assessment panel.
Kyrgyz police have detained several women who allegedly are members of a banned Islamic group.
Amnesty International has warned that human rights and the laws and institutions meant to protect them are under threat around the world from an "insidious and creeping trend" among governments that are deliberately attacking or neglecting them.
Nearly all principals of Islamic schools in Kyrgyzstan will not be certified in 2016 because they lack a diploma for higher education on religion.
A Kyrgyz journalist who was attacked on February 20 by a group of men wielding metal bars has blamed the Interior Ministry for the violence and says he thinks the ministry plans to kill him.
Google has added the Kyrgyz language to its online translation system.
Why a tiny village in Kyrgyzstan has become hotbed of ice hockey.
Moscow resident Yulia Val fell onto the subway rails from a platform at the Krasnoselskaya station. What happened next will astound you.
The settlement built for construction workers on a hydroelectric project in Kyrgyzstan is now a ghost town. The workers departed soon after the project was abandoned last month. But the locals are hoping the Russians will soon be back. (Zhibek Byegaliyevoy for RFE/RL's Current Time).
It seems a pattern of governance has emerged, or rather reappeared, in Central Asia: the dynasty.
An actor with the Kyrgyz capital's Chingiz Aitmatov Russian Drama Theater has been found dead.
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