Members of the socialist Ata-Meken party have suggested that MPs of the Kyrgyz parliament travel to work by bus and reject the cars given to them by parliament. MPs of other factions have reacted ambiguously to the idea. Continue reading →

A monument to the legendary Kyrgyz hero Manas appeared in Osh on January 5. According to its architects, it is the highest equestrian statue in the CIS. However, many people are outraged that the monument was constructed with funds from the state budget. Continue reading →

Residents of a village called Barak in a Kyrgyz exclave in the Fergana Valley have asked to begin building houses outside their own territory – territory that is completely surrounded by Uzbekistan. They do not want to move to areas in the Osh region, because these lands, they complain, “are not irrigated.” Continue reading →

The Microblogging service Futubra was launched by Mail.ru on January 16. The new project is seen as a potential competitor to the American-owned Twitter across the Russian Internet space. Continue reading →

Farmers are complaining about increases in the livestock disease foot and mouth. According to vets, this is a new disease in Kyrgyzstan. Animal blood samples have been sent to Russia for analysis. Continue reading →

When angry citizens take to the streets in Kyrgyzstan, not all of them are there out of conviction – some may be “activists for hire”, part of a band of people prepared to express public outrage in return for some kind of remuneration. Continue reading →

Residents of Kyrgyzstan can now only travel from Bishkek to Osh and back following a ban on the An-24 aircraft. All flights using these small planes have been cancelled. Among the cities affected by the ban were Jalal-Abad, Batken and Isfana, which prior to the start of 2012 received regular flights from Bishkek. Continue reading →

This week in parliament, Deputy Urulkan Amanbaeva made a demand that the State Secretary of the Treasury, Dinara Shaydieva, speak in Kyrgyz because she is an ethnic Kyrgyz. Human rights defenders have subjected the demand to harsh criticism. Continue reading →

A resident of Kara-Balta, according to the preliminary data of the MIA, hired three teenagers for over 40 thousand soms and property documents to murder her husband. Continue reading →

The Press Service of the Ministry of Health has reported that from 31 December to 9 January, one of the 104 patients admitted to the rehabilitation and drug treatment center, died of alcoholic psychosis. On average the RRC receives about 3,500 patients a year. Continue reading →