Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | yesterday
Experts from regional and international security organizations will take part on Tuesday in an international conference on efforts to fight terrorism and extremism due to open in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek.
Eurasianet (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Students prevented from studying at the American University of Central Asia (AUCA) in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, and later prohibited from traveling to the American University of Bulgaria, reportedly have been placed on a five-year travel blacklist, an opposition news site is reporting.
Institute for War & Peace Reporting (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Parliament’s refusal to sign international ban on executions seen as a bad sign. By Anara Yusupova in Bishkek (RCA No. 595, 13-Nov-09)
Institute for War & Peace Reporting (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Reforms contain many retrograde steps and look very like an attempt to bolster President Bakiev. By Pavel Diatlenko in Bishkek (RCA No. 594, 12-Nov-09)
Eurasianet (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
For traders at the Dordoi Bazaar, a sprawling hub of wholesalers and retailers near Bishkek, the global financial crisis is taking a severe toll.
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Shairbek Zhusuev, leader of political party ErK (Erkin Kyrgyzstan - transl. Free Kyrgyzstan), shocked many Kyrgyzstanis stating that the capital of Kyrgyzstan Bishkek city has been satanized for many years, as it has a big sign symbolizing demonolatry. Zhusuev says that he found out about it while surfing Google Earths and learning Bishkek from high [...]
Institute for War & Peace Reporting (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
President accused of heading for dynastic rule after appointing son to top job. By Yevgenia Kim in Bishkek (RCA No. 594, 06-Nov-09)
France 24 (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The editor of a newspaper that frequently criticised the secret police in ex-Soviet Kyrgyzstan has died after a savage attack in which he was stabbed more than a dozen times, police said Thursday. The body of Seyitbek Murataliyev, editor of the independent weekly Zhylan, was found by police early Wednesday morning in a communal area of his apartment building in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek.
Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
A 14- year-old boy has spent the last eight years living alone in a ramshackle sheep shed in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan, the Vecherny Bishkek newspaper reported on Thursday.
Eurasianet (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
BY DEIRDRE TYNAN Kyrgyz firms are being invited to take advantage of commercial opportunities connected with the presence of an American transit center outside Bishkek. From the American military perspective, it’s a win-win situation if Kyrgyz companies get more involved in the procurement process: the Defense Department generates local goodwill that can improve the operation of the Northern...
Eurasianet (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
BY EVAN SPARLING Sasha, a 17 year-old ethnic Korean student in Bishkek, only knows one word in Korean: hello. She has lived all her life in the former Soviet Union, speaks Russian, and physically resembles a Kyrgyz so much that few can guess her true ethnicity. She does not even know when, exactly, her relatives migrated to the Soviet Union. But none of this stops her from emphatically declaring, "Of...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan -- The director of a circus arena says an ice-skating bear turned on its trainers, killing one and seriously wounding another.
Reuters (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
BISHKEK (Reuters) - Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev named long-standing ally Daniyar Usenov Wednesday as prime minister, in a major shake-up of government that cements his grip on power.
Eurasianet (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
BY ALISHER KHAMIDOV Kyrgyzstan’s cabinet resigned on October 20 as President Kurmanbek Bakiyev announced a broad plan to restructure the government. Political experts in Bishkek offered guarded praise for Bakiyev’s reform scheme, with some suggesting that it represented perhaps the last, best hope for his administration to contain corruption in the Central Asian state.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan -- Kyrgyzstan's Cabinet resigned Tuesday as part of a sweeping government reform campaign the president said will save money and make the Central Asian nation's leadership more effective.
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