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Polls are under way in Kyrgyzstan’s snap parliamentary election, in which allies of President Sadyr Japarov are expected to win a resounding victory.

Kyrgyzstan’s parliament voted on Thursday to dissolve the legislature for snap elections in a move analysts said was likely to consolidate President Sadyr Japarov’s power.

Kyrgyzstan's parliament has approved a bill that tightens state controls over media outlets, in what critics say is a blow to press freedom in a country once seen as more open than other Central Asian nations.

Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov has dismissed the prime minister, Akylbek Japarov, the presidential administration said in a statement on Monday.

Students from Pakistan and other Asian countries are leaving Kyrgyzstan by the hundreds after an angry mob attacked their living quarters this month, although some hope to return when the situation calms down.

Pakistan has repatriated more than 3,000 Pakistanis, mostly students, from Kyrgyzstan in the past week after recent attacks on foreigners over an unknown dispute with migrants, the deputy prime minister said Wednesday.

Kyrgyz Ministry of Internal Affairs sent more than 50 tons of humanitarian aid to Kazakhstan on April 18 amid large-scale floods, reported the ministry’s press service.

A magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck the Kyrgyzstan-Xinjiang border region on Tuesday, leading to the collapse of homes and killing at least three people and injuring five, Chinese state media reported.

Calls to share scarce water resources and cooperate on security issues featured heavily in a two-day summit of the five Central Asian leaders that wrapped up in Dushanbe on September 15.

Almost 2 billion people rely on rivers that arise in the Tibetan Plateau and the Hindu Kush, among them the former Soviet republics of Central Asia. Long-term neglect, mismanagement, and overuse of water resources, coupl...

If the ruble continues its downward trend, many migrants might consider leaving Russia, which could further impact the remittances received by Central Asian countries.

As Bishkek announces a three-year energy emergency, newly announced Chinese energy projects provide some hope – but when, and at what cost?

A Bishkek court sentenced a Kyrgyz citizen to 10 years in prison in July for joining Russian forces in eastern Ukraine as a mercenary. Moscow now wants him back and is prepared to grant him citizenship,

BISHKEK. KAZINFORM Kyrgyzstan will introduce an emergency situation in the energy sector. President Sadyr Zhaparov signed the Decree «On the emergency situation in the energy sector of the Kyrgyz Republic»,

President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov has invited foreign companies to participate in the construction of small and medium-sized hydroelectric power

The Bishkek police department commented on bomb threat reports at several schools in Bishkek

The epicenter of the earthquake was situated in the territory of Kyrgyzstan, 209 km southwest of Almaty city in Kazakhstan. The quake hit at a depth of 5 km at 5:03 am Almaty time. Earlier Kazinform reported that the Kaz...

The Kazakhstan authorities have seized the property of the main operator of the Russian spaceport at Baikonur. 

He provided no further details. Kyrgyzstan was scheduled to hold a similar CTSO exercise last year, but cancelled it amid a violent border conflict with another bloc member, Tajikistan. The bloc also includes Belarus and...

Since the demise of the Soviet Union, parts of the 870-mile border between the two Central Asian countries were disputed Ex-Soviet republics Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan said Friday they finished demarcating their contested...