Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan To Reopen Case Of Murdered Journalist

AP | Posted 04.09.2012

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BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (AP) — Kyrgyzstan's highest court has overturned a murder conviction in the case of a prominent journalist who was shot in the t...

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WATCH: Passengers Survive As Plane Catches Fire, Rolls In Kyrgyzstan

Posted 12.28.2011

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A Russian-made passenger jet skidded off a runway in southern Kyrgyzstan after landing in dense fog in the city of Osh on Wednesday. At least 31 pe...

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PHOTOS: Jet Crash Injures 31

AP | Posted 02.27.2012

Read More: Kyrgyzstan Jet Crash, Kyrgyzstan Passenger Jet Crash, Jet Crash, Kyrgyzstan, Kyrgyzstan Plane Crash, World News

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan -- A Soviet-built jet operated by a Kyrgyz carrier broke its wing, overturned and caught fire Wednesday as it tried to land in dee...

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Future Of Crucial U.S. Airbase Unclear

AP | By PETER LEONARD | Posted 11.29.2011

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BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan -- Kyrgyzstan's outgoing president said Tuesday that the decision on whether to allow the U.S. air base to remain in the country a...

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Newly Elected Kyrgyz President Wants Strategic U.S. Base Closed

AP | PETER LEONARD | Posted 01.01.2012

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BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — Kyrgyzstan's president-elect said Tuesday the U.S. air base needs to close by 2014 because its presence on Kyrgyz soil put...

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Opponents Cry Foul After Candidate Claims Victory In Kyrgyzstan Election

AP | PETER LEONARD and LEILA SARALAYEVA | Posted 12.31.2011

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BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — Kyrgyzstan presidential election winner Almazbek Atambayev's moment of glory was soured Monday by a stinging assessment fr...

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Kyrgyzstan Presidential Election Pits Front Runner Against 2 Popular Nationalist Candidates

AP | PETER LEONARD | Posted 12.30.2011

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BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — The front-runner in Kyrgyzstan's presidential election looked set for an unexpectedly crushing victory early Monday, promp...

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As Central Asia Fragments, Could English Be the Answer?

Cleo Paskal | Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: India, Natural Resources, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia, English, Military Bases, Russia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, China, US, Anglosphere, Kazakhstan, World News

On Christmas Day, 1991, five new countries were born. This year Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan turn 20. A lot has changed.

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Bring the Kyrgyz 65 Children Home: An International Adoption Nightmare

Tom Roston | Posted 10.08.2011

Read More: Hillary Clinton, Children, Kyrgyzstan, Adoption, Parents News

Tonight, there's a 3-and-a-half-year-old toddler who will sleep without the love, protection and goodnight kisses of his parents. His name is Ruslan, and he has been living in an orphanage in his native Kyrgyzstan since he was three days old, despite the tireless efforts of his adoptive parents, Frances and Drew Pardus-Abbadessa to bring him home to New York City.

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Kyrgyzstan Hit By Magnitude-6.2 Earthquake

AP | Posted 09.18.2011

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BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — A powerful earthquake measuring 6.2 struck a mountainous location in southern Kyrgyzstan on the border with Uzbekistan ear...

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Seven Sheep Sacrificed To Rid Parliament Of 'Evil Spirits'

AP | Posted 06.21.2011

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BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — Lawmakers in Kyrgyzstan's raucous parliament have sacrificed seven sheep in what they call a bid to drive evil spirits out...

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10,000 Stray Dogs To Be Shot In Kyrgyzstan

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — Officials in the capital of Kyrgyzstan say budgetary constraints are forcing them to shoot the city's estimated 10,000 str...

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U.S. Airmen Volunteer At School In Kyrgyzstan

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fairchild Air Force Base, Arron McLaughlin, Soliska School, Air Force, Humanitarian Aid, Kyrgyzstan, Kxly, Video, Impact News

When they're not flying over Afghanistan, airmen from Fairchild Air Force Base are helping local children at The Soliska School in Kyrgyzstan. KYLY ...

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Rights Group: Uzbeks Tortured In Kyrgyzstan

AP | PETER LEONARD | Posted 05.25.2011

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BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — A prominent human rights group said Monday that Kyrgyzstan's armed forces abetted and may even have actively taken part in...

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For Kyrgyzstan Women, Marriage Means Getting Kidnapped 'Borat'-Style

GlobalPost | Iva Skoch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kyrgyz Women, Women's Rights, Human Rights, Kyrgyzstan, Marriage, Wedding Traditions, Marriage Traditions, Bride Kidnapping, Wedding, World News

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan -- Munara didn't want to be kidnapped. Some Kyrgyz girls look forward to the time they get "chosen" by a man, but Munara, 18, al...

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Locked in a Tinderbox

Gerry Simpson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Uzbekistan, Refugees, Uzbek, Kyrgyzstan, Torture, World News

Torture and arbitrary detention are longstanding problems in Kyrgyzstan, but the massive targeting of ethnic Uzbeks for unlawful arrest and mistreatment amid ethnic insults and threats is new.

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Kyrgyzstan: Probe Forces' Role in June Violence

Human Rights Watch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ethnic Violence, Kyrgyzstan, Kyrgyzstan Violence, World News

Some government forces acted, knowingly or unwittingly, to facilitate attacks on ethnic Uzbek neighborhoods in the violence in southern Kyrgyzstan in June 2010, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today.

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From Totalitarianism to Turbines: The Unending Struggle for Power in Central Asia

Derek Henry Flood | Posted 06.29.2011

The deadly June crisis in southern Kyrgyzstan highlights the extreme fragility in Central Asia's inherently flawed post-independence nation-state structures. However, the five republics are being simultaneously courted by the U.S. military.

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Kyrgyzstan Declares State Of Emergency After Burst of Ethnic Violence

AP | PETER LEONARD | Posted 05.25.2011

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BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — Several thousand people tried to storm a university in Kyrgyzstan on Wednesday in a burst of ethnic violence that left at ...

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Tobacco Giant Philip Morris Is Hooked on Child Labor (Video)

Michelle Chen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Farming, Labor, Kazakhstan, Workers, Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, Central Asia, Slavery, Agriculture, Philip Morris, Tobacco, Kyrgyzstan, World News

Everyone knows smoking is a costly habit, taking a toll on your health and your wallet. What you probably didn't know is that the tobacco industry extracts a much dearer price from children laboring in the remote fields of Central Asia.

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Watch: Hellish Work, Tobacco Workers in Kazakhstan

Human Rights Watch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Migrant Workers, Kazakhstan, Video, Philip Morris, Cigarettes, Human Rights Watch, Kyrgyzstan, World News

Every year, tens of thousands of migrant workers from Kyrgyzstan travel to the Central Asian economic powerhouse of Kazakhstan in search of employment.

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Russia's New Kyrgyzstan

Amir Madani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Soviet Union, World News

It is evident this week that the Kremlin's consensus was behind the change of power in Kyrgyzstan.

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Bakiyev, Ousted Kyrgyz President, Charged With Mass Killing

AP | LEILA SARALAYEVA | Posted 05.25.2011

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BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — The ousted president of Kyrgyzstan has been charged with organizing mass killings in the deadly uprising that forced him f...

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Satellite Images Reveal Massive Destruction in Kyrgyzstan

Amnesty International | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Amnesty International, Human Rights, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, United Nations, Refugees, World News

Satellite images show the dramatic impact of the recent violent events on the city of Osh in southern Kyrgyzstan.

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Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine & Rites of Passage: Songs of Scythian Stones

Michal Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Joseph Campbell, Myth, Mongolia, Scythian Stones, Gogol Bordello, Kyrgyzstan, Yara Arts Group, Ukraine, La Mama, Eugene Hutz, Virlana Tkacz, Arts News

Virlana Tkacz's work with the Yara Arts Group reflects her desire to re-integrate the ancient "ways of knowing" as she puts it, into modern life.

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