The mayor of the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, has been dismissed while on vacation.
Governments in Central Asia continue to use, and some would say abuse, the right to appeal to international law enforcement agencies to apprehend citizens of Central Asian states who have fled their homeland.
France, Switzerland, and England are among the World Cup teams that feature players from diverse backgrounds. Russia's squad, meanwhile, lacks the multiethnic composition that would mirror its population.
In a new report, the U.S. State Department says Belarus, Iran, Russia, and Turkmenistan remain among the worst offenders of human trafficking and forced labor.
A senior Kyrgyz official says 150 Kyrgyz nationals have been killed in Syria fighting on the side of Islamic militants since the beginning of the civil war in the Middle Eastern country in 2011.
Kyrgyz authorities have transferred Kazakh opposition activist Muratbek Tunghyshbaev from a detention center in Bishkek to the custody of the State Committee for National Security, increasing concerns about his planned extradition to Kazakhstan.
A court in Kyrgyzstan has upheld a decision to extradite a Kazakh opposition activist to his homeland despite concerns by human rights activists that he could face torture and ill-treatment if returned.
Kyrgyz authorities have jailed a second former prime minister in a corruption case that is making waves in the Central Asian country.
A taxi plowed into a crowd of pedestrians in central Moscow on June 16, injuring several people, including soccer fans from Mexico supporting their national team in soccer's World Cup that Russia is hosting.
Abduction and forced marriage -- often referred to as bride kidnapping -- has come to prominence in Kyrgyzstan since the killing of a young woman by her abductor last month. Former Kyrgyz President Roza Otunbaeva warned that women also take part in coercing other women to marry against their will.
Graves are supposed to be free in Kyrgyzstan, but an RFE/RL investigation finds they're being illegally sold for thousands of dollars.
The top Kyrgyz and Uzbek defense officials have met to discuss cooperation for the first time since the two Central Asian countries gained independence when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.
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