Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev soaked up the spotlight as he made his way to the stage to officially open the World Nomad Games in 2016. Atambayev holds the notable position of being the only ...

In the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, it's not hard to find an offer of a high-paying job in Russia. Ads posted around the city promise job-seekers a chance to earn $1,000 a week -- double what most ...

USDKG to be backed by $300 million in physical gold reserves purchased from the National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic, with planned expansion to $2 billion. The Kyrgyz Republic has announced the ...

FILE - Local residents, Kyrgyz and Uzbeks, receive humanitarian aid in front of a statue of Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin on a central square in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh, Kyrgyzstan ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) voiced alarm on Friday over the conviction of Kyrgyz whistleblower Zhoomart Karabaev, calling it a troubling example of how Kyrgyzstan’s justice system punishes those who dare ...

Former Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev was sentenced in absentia to more than 11 years in prison, Sputnik Kyrgyzstan reported Tuesday. Atambayev, who led the country from 2011 to 2017 ...

A court in Kyrgyzstan has sentenced in absentia exiled former President Almazbek Atambayev to more than 11 years in prison on charges of corruption and participating in mass unrest in the Central ...

LONDON (AP) — Authorities in the second-largest city in Kyrgyzstan, Osh, have removed a towering statue of Vladimir Lenin thought to be the tallest of the revolutionary Soviet leader in Central ...

Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan: Russian ally Kyrgyzstan on Saturday quietly dismantled Central Asia's tallest monument to Vladimir Lenin, the revolutionary founder of the Soviet Union. Ex-Soviet states ...