The Latest Breaking News from Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan is getting rid of its Soviet-inspired national anthem and has launched an unprecedented public contest to find an alternative.

Kyrgyzstan banned full-body niqabs, citing security and cultural reasons. The official Muslim body-backed law argues that the garment could hide threats.

Springtime heat in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan likely to become more common as planet warms, accelerating glacier loss and threatening water supplies

Edil Baisalov, Deputy Prime Minister of the Kyrgyz Republic, spoke to Euronews about trade, energy, youth mobility and democratic resilience, urging stronger investment and joint responses to global upheavals and the challenges of the digital age.

Bloc to discuss trade, security and energy with leaders of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan

Tajikistan's President Emomali Rahmon and Kyrgyzstan's President Sadyr Japarov ratified the deal on 13 March in Bishkek.

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Freedom of worship is tenuous around the globe. The Pew Research Center’s latest annual report found “high” or “very high” levels of government constraints on religion in 59 of the 198 countries and territories it analyzed – a new record. When Pew began releasing reports on the issue in 2007,…

In 2024 horticulturalists made single biggest introduction of rare seeds to collection in the past decade

In a mask and a hazmat suit, Ermek Murataliyev drives a truck filled with Soviet-era radioactive waste along the winding mountain roads of Kyrgyzstan.

Family and friends piece together the events that led to the death of an ambitious student and loving daughter.