To the Kyrgyz, a horse is a prized possession, and horsemanship a much-prized skill, with the most part of their life, nomads are on the saddle from...
To the Kyrgyz, a horse is a prized possession, and horsemanship a much-prized skill, with the most part of their life, nomads are on the saddle from their childhood to a venerable age. ...
Recent election results in Kyrgyzstan have prompted protests as supporters of Adakhan Madumarov and Kamchybek Tashiev gathered for a mass demonstration, stating that the elections were ...
Kyrgyzstan's President Roza Otunbaeva has marked the first anniversary of deadly ethnic violence in her country with a call for tolerance and understanding between Krygyz and ethni...
For the past ten years, around this time of the year, more than 30 thousand high school graduates participate in the National Testing - a set of written exams necessary to enroll in uni...
Tensions in Nookar over the killing of a local tax inspector. Police say a group of some 500 people in southern Kyrgyzstan set fire to the house of a businessman they blame for ordering...
Dozens of families in the southern Kyrgyz village of Shark who lost their homes during ethnic violence in the summer still live in tents. Kyrgyzstan. 07/12/2010
Two police officers and a nurse have been wounded in Bishkek in an explosion Kyrgyz authorities are blaming on militants possibly trained in foreign terrorist camps. Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan...
Osh bazaar is one of the largest bazaars in Bishkek but it has changed dramatically with violence that has ravaged the city of Osh in June this year and destroyed almost all the infrast...
A group of some 500 Kyrgyz, most of them from the city of Osh and the Nookat, Aravan, and Alai districts, showed up in i the Uzbek-populated villages of Ishkevan and Kyzyl-Kyshtak attem...
Residents of the Sharq area of Osh, Kyrgyzstan, still living in a tent village as their houses are rebuilt by international aid organizations following ethnic violence in June. Osh, Kyr...
About a dozen activists picketed the Russian Embassy in Bishkek to protest what they termed Russian meddling in Kyrgyz domestic politics. Bishek, Kyrgyzstan. 20/10/2010
As the official campaign season kicked off for national Kyrgyz elections on September 10, 29 parties were officially in the running for seats in the country's parliament. Kyrgyzsta...