Across Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, sharp peaks rise above silent desert lakes — a rare landscape where snow and sand meet ...

Kyrgyzstan’s main reservoir, Toktogul, holds just 10.8 cubic kilometers of water - its lowest September level in more than a decade - threatening electricity generation. The government plans to import ...

BISHKEK - A court in Kyrgyzstan sentenced two former video editors of the independent outlet Kloop, Zhoomart Duulatov and Alexander Alexandrov, to five years in prison on Wednesday on charges of ...

Kyrgyzstan, a key emerging player in Central Asia’s crypto market, has advanced a bill to establish a state cryptocurrency reserve and support the growth of the wider digital asset industry. Kyrgyz ...

Kyrgyzstan has begun underground gold production at Kumtor, one of Central Asia’s largest bullion mines, which officials say could contain up to 147 metric tonnes of reserves. Kumtor was once Centerra ...

BISHKEK - Kyrgyzstan has banned access to online pornography and imposed state control over internet traffic under new laws signed by President Sadyr Japarov, his office said on Tuesday. Japarov's ...

(Bishkek, June 27, 2025) – Kyrgyzstan’s parliament on June 25, 2025, passed two draft laws that threaten to significantly weaken media freedom and protection against torture in the country, Human ...

Gold Dollar (USDKG), a gold-backed stablecoin of Kyrgyzstan, merges gold's stability with blockchain efficiency, enabling secure and transparent transactions for both institutions and individual ...

Government officials from Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan at last finalized a border delimitation agreement during a meeting at the Ala-Archa state residence in Bishkek on February 21. The meeting, ...

A couple of months back, Kyrgyzstan’s president called a family in the southern city of Kyzyl-Kiya to congratulate them on the birth of their fourth child and suggested a name: Zhakshylyk, meaning ...

Bishkek has announced that it is canceling military exercises for the Moscow-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) which were to be held in Kyrgyzstan this week. The Indestructible ...

For the past month, Kyrgyzstan has been experiencing a severe shortage of dollars. Banks are rationing how many greenbacks they give customers – when they have any to give out in the first place. As ...