President Askar Akayev and his family left Kyrgyzstan's capital by helicopter Thursday evening, the Interfax news agency reported, hours after protesters seized government headquarters in Bishkek and ...

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan – Authorities in Kyrgyzstan say four militants linked to an international terror organization have been killed in a shootout in the country's ...

The leaders of this week's bloody uprising in Kyrgyzstan are trying to get a hold on their control of the country. The president has fled but refuses to relinquish office. In the capital Bishkek, ...

Too often opportunities concentrate within capital cities or designated special economic zones, and thereby render the rest of the country peripheral.

MOSCOW – Kyrgyzstan's deputy prime minister says a suicide bomber has rammed his car into the gate of the Chinese embassy compound in the capital Bishkek, detonating a bomb and injuring three embassy ...

Nobody would ever have accused Bishkek of having the cleanest air. But this is proving an especially bad year for smog in Kyrgyzstan’s capital. Earlier this week, a spokesman for the government ...

Almazbek Atambayev, the former president of Kyrgyzstan whose fate lies in the balance following parliament’s decision to strike down his immunity status, has mounted a high-stakes challenge to the ...

KVN – the Russian abbreviation for Club of the Funny and Inventive [Клуб весёлых и находчивых] – remains a national comedy institution in many states of the former Soviet Union. Kyrgyzstan, whose ...

Last week, Kyrgyzstan held its second presidential election since the 2005 Tulip Revolution, when street mobs ousted the country’s leader, Askar Akayev, following parliamentary elections that they ...

A Turkish cargo plane crashed just outside the main airport in Kyrgyzstan, killing dozens of people, including some on the ground and others who were aboard the Boeing 747, according to Kyrgyzstan's ...

Kyrgyz protest rally on 19 February Protests that began on 21 February in three parts of Kyrgyzstan peaked last night when a group of protesters in Kochkor Raion blocked the car of regional Governor ...