- 12:56 06/03/2012 BISHKEK, March 6 (RIA Novosti)
The brother of former Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev has failed to return to a correctional facility after receiving treatment in a civilian hospital and is now a fugitive, a source in the regional corrections service said.
- 06:43 01/12/2011 BISHKEK, December 1 (RIA Novosti)
Kyrgyz President-elect Almazbek Atambayev will be inaugurated on Thursday in a ceremony marking the first peaceful transition of supreme power in the country's history since the Soviet collapse.
- 07:44 30/10/2011 BISHKEK, October 30 (RIA Novosti)
Kyrgyz voters poured into polling stations early on Sunday to elect the country’s new leader for the first time since the ouster of President Kurmanbek Bakiyev last year.
- 05:49 08/03/2011
President of the United States Barack Obama received his Kyrgyz counterpart Roza Otunbayeva in the White House on Monday for talks on the democratic developments and economic issues in Kyrgyzstan.
- 14:33 06/01/2011
The international law enforcement group Intepol has turned down a Kyrgyz request to issue a "red notice" for the family members of ousted president Kurmanbek Bakiyev, the Kyrgyz 24.kg news agency said on Thursday.
- 04:38 26/12/2010
Almazbek Atambayev, the new Kyrgyz prime minister, will pay a working visit to Russia on December 26-27.
- 09:25 20/12/2010
The government of Kyrgyzstan on Monday officially handed power over to new cabinet leader Almazbek Atambayev, the country's news agencies have reported.
- 20:41 17/12/2010
Kyrgyzstan's parliament voted on Friday to accept the structure of the new coalition government, which vowed to follow through on reforms designed to build parliamentary democracy in the country.
- 15:11 02/11/2010
The nephew of ousted Kyrgyz leader Kurmanbek Bakiyev has been sentenced to ten years in prison for instigating the violence that erupted between Kyrgyz and ethnic Uzbeks in June, a judge said on Tuesday.
- 15:22 12/10/2010
Russia is ready to develop relations with Kyrgyzstan when the central Asian country forms a full-fledged government, the Russian foreign minister said on Tuesday.
- 02:22 11/10/2010
Five Kyrgyz parties have cleared the 5% barrier necessary to gain seats in parliament after 25.03% of votes in Sunday's election were counted, the country's Central Election Commission said.
- 21:59 10/10/2010
Seven parties competing in Kyrgyzstan's parliamentary elections secured enough votes to win seats in the assembly, according to an exit poll conducted by Kyrgyz NGOs.
- 20:02 10/10/2010
Preliminary data showed 52.4 percent of registered voters took part in Kyrgyzstan's parliamentary elections, the country's top election official said, hailing the low figure as proof the vote was not rigged.
- 19:36 10/10/2010
More than half of the electorate voted in parliamentary elections in Kyrgyzstan, the country's election authority reported after polls closed.
- 17:23 10/10/2010
The parliamentary elections in Kyrgyzstan are being held in a relaxed atmosphere, the Russian head of a CIS observer mission said.
- 15:38 10/10/2010
The Kyrgyz Central Election Commission said on Sunday that no serious violations were registered during parliamentary elections in the Central Asian republic.
- 11:01 10/10/2010
The Kyrgyz authorities have failed to provide conditions for honest parliamentary elections in the country, ex-premier and leader of Ar-Namys opposition party Felix Kulov said on Sunday.
- 07:34 10/10/2010
Polling stations opened for parliamentary elections in Kyrgyzstan at 8 a.m. local time [2 a.m. GMT] throughout the country.
- 14:42 09/10/2010
Kyrgyz President Roza Otunbayeva said during an address to the people of the Central Asian country that Sunday's parliamentary elections will create a new system of government.
- 20:46 29/09/2010
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Wednesday to allocate $8 million this year via UN funds to help Kyrgyzstan in dealing with the aftermath of this year's riots and ethnic clashes.
- 13:37 14/09/2010
The Kyrgyz authorities are initiating a court case against ousted president Kurmanbek Bakiyev, who took refuge in Belarus after he was overthrown in May, a Kyrgyz deputy prime minister said on Tuesday.
- 16:35 27/08/2010
Belarus has refused for the second time a request to extradite the ousted Kyrgyz president, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, the Kyrgyz prosecutor general said on Friday.
- 13:16 12/08/2010
The Russian Central Electoral Commission will not send observers to parliamentary elections in Kyrgyzstan, CEC head Vladimir Churov said on Thursday.
- 03:39 10/08/2010
Kyrgyz President Roza Otunbayeva has set parliamentary elections in the country for October 10.
- 15:20 09/08/2010
Kyrgyz President Roza Otunbayeva has lifted the state of emergency and curfew declared in southern Kyrgyzstan two months ago amid interethnic violence, the Kyrgyz government's spokesman said on Monday.
- 14:09 09/08/2010
The Kyrgyz interim government is not negotiating with the United States on the establishment of a new military base in the republic, government spokesman Farid Niyazov said on Monday.
- 19:49 05/08/2010
Members of the Kyrgyz opposition gang who organized Thursday's mass protest in the capital Bishkek planned to assassinate all the high-ranking officials in the Kyrgyz interim government, President Roza Otunbayeva said.
- 18:49 05/08/2010
Members of the Kyrgyz opposition gang who organized Thursday's mass protest in the capital Bishkek planned to assassinate all the high-ranking officials in the Kyrgyz interim government, President Roza Otunbayeva said.
- 17:57 05/08/2010
Kyrgyz Opposition leader and businessman Urmat Baryktabasov, who organized Thursday's mass protest in the capital Bishkek, has been detained, the head of the Kyrgyz government's press service said on Thursday.
- 16:52 05/08/2010
Members of a Kyrgyz opposition rally in Bishkek headed on Thursday to the nearby city of Kant, where police stopped another group of protesters headed by opposition leader and businessman Urmat Baryktabasov.
- 14:17 05/08/2010
Kyrgyz police have refused to allow opposition leader and businessman Urmat Baryktabasov to enter the capital to join a protest, a rally organization committee representative said.
- 12:38 05/08/2010
Thousands of Kyrgyz opposition supporters gathered Thursday on the square in front of the country's parliament in Bishkek, which currently houses the interim government.
- 07:44 05/08/2010
Volunteers from self-defense squads and police patrolled streets of the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek on Thursday amid growing fears that an opposition congress may end up in another outbreak of unrest in the ex-Soviet state.
- 17:46 03/08/2010
The goal of a police advisory group of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Kyrgyzstan is to restore trust in police, the Kyrgyz Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.
- 19:00 27/07/2010
International financial institutions will allocate $1.1 billion towards the recovery of Kyrgyzstan's economy, the government press service said on Tuesday.
- 03:35 27/07/2010
The CIS Interstate Humanitarian Cooperation Foundation (IHCF) will hand over 4.8 metric tons of aid to Kyrgyz secondary schools and children's houses on Tuesday.
- 16:20 22/07/2010
An international commission will in August start an investigation into the recent riots in southern Kyrgyzstan, an Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) special representative said on Thursday.
- 13:15 22/07/2010
The brother of Kyrgyzstan's ousted president will be transferred to the capital, Bishkek, to face charges of being behind May riots in the country, the interior minister said on Thursday.
- 02:09 22/07/2010
Police in southern Kyrgyzstan detained late on Wednesday Ahmad Bakiyev, the brother of the ousted president Kurmanbek Bakiyev, an interim government spokesperson told RIA Novosti.
- 06:32 18/07/2010
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg will pay a visit the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek on Sunday to discuss stabilization measures in the south of the country, where hundreds of people were killed in ethnic clashes in June.
- 12:40 07/07/2010
The first deputy head of the Kyrgyz state security service, Kubatbek Baibolov, was appointed the country's new interior minister after Bolot Sher resigned, the Kyrgyz 24.kg news agency said on Wednesday.
- 11:38 07/07/2010
Kyrgyz authorities will demand again the extradition of ousted President Kurmanbek Bakiyev from Belarus, a senior interim government official said Wednesday.
- 07:50 06/07/2010
A former Kyrgyz minister of transport and communications, wanted on charges of abuse of office, turned himself in to police.
- 11:16 02/07/2010
Kyrgyz interim leader Roza Otunbayeva was officially declared on Friday the country's president for the transitional period until December 31, 2011.
- 05:03 29/06/2010
The current political crisis in Kyrgyzstan was caused by a power struggle between domestic drug clans.
- 09:10 26/06/2010
The Kyrgyz interim government declared Saturday a "Day of Silence" before the 27 June referendum on a new constitution, a Kyrgyz Central Election Committee spokeswoman said.
- 18:53 25/06/2010
Around 170 international observers will monitor the referendum on a new Kyrgyz Constitution, Kyrgyz interim Prime Minister Roza Otunbayeva said on Friday.
- 14:26 23/06/2010
Belarus has found no legal grounds for the extradition of deposed Kyrgyz president Kurmanbek Bakiyev, the Belarusian Prosecutor General said on Wednesday
- 02:10 19/06/2010
One of ousted Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev's sons, Maxim Bakiyev, received a temporary political asylum in Great Britain on Friday.
- 10:26 18/06/2010
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said the U.S. military facility in Kyrgyzstan, used as a major transit point for supplying troops in Afghanistan, should not be permanent.
- 23:56 16/06/2010
Interpol is studying the legal basis of the international arrest warrant of former Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, the Kyrgyz Interpol bureau said in an official statement on Wednesday.
- 11:14 15/06/2010
About 100,000 minority Uzbeks fleeing mobs of Kyrgyz massed at the border on Monday, an Uzbek leader said, as the deadliest ethnic violence to hit this Central Asian nation in 20 years left a major city smouldering. Fires raged for a fourth day in the southern city of Osh, three miles (five kilometres) from the border with Uzbekistan.
- 11:11 15/06/2010
More than 2,200 people have been evacuated from southern Kyrgyzstan, where ethnic violence has killed at least 170 people, Kyrgyz 24.kg news agency cited the head of the civil aviation agency as saying on Tuesday
- 09:03 15/06/2010
The United States and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe agree that more coordination is needed in aid efforts in Kyrgyzstan, where ethnic violence has killed 170 people, Kazakhstan's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday
- 04:22 15/06/2010
The United Nations Security Council members condemned recent interethnic violence in Kyrgyzstan, urged to put an end to bloodshed and provide humanitarian aid to all civilians hurt in bloody clashes.
- 01:44 15/06/2010
The death toll in Kyrgyzstan's interethnic clashes has risen to 138.
- 22:08 14/06/2010
The post-Soviet Collective Security Treaty Organization will offer emergency assistance to law-enforcement agencies in Kyrgyzstan, where more than 100 people have died in four days of ethnic clashes.
- 21:20 14/06/2010
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Monday that the situation in Kyrgyzstan was unacceptable and called for firm action to halt the interethnic violence that has killed more than 100 people.
- 19:30 14/06/2010
The authorities in Uzbekistan have already officially registered 45,000 refugees from the ethnic violence in neighboring Kyrgyzstan, a deputy prime minister of Uzbekistan told journalists on Monday.
- 17:15 14/06/2010
The post-Soviet CSTO security bloc said on Monday that the current steps taken by the government of Kyrgyzstan were insufficient to deal with the ethnic violence in the country.
- 16:11 14/06/2010
Officials from the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) gathered on Monday to discuss ways to resolve the crisis in Kyrgyzstan, including possible deployment of a peacekeeping contingent.
- 11:31 14/06/2010
The death toll in Kyrgyzstan's interethnic clashes has risen to 117, the AKIpress news agency reported Monday, updating its earlier figure of 114
- 08:29 14/06/2010
Deadly ethnic riots swept through the country's second-largest city of Osh and another southern city of Jalalabad, claiming the lives of more than 100 people.
- 04:39 14/06/2010
At least 114 people were killed in clashes between ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbeks in the southern Kyrgyz cities of Osh and Jalal-Abad.
- 23:13 13/06/2010
The death toll in Kyrgyz ethnic clashes has risen to 113, with more than 1,400 people injured, a local health ministry spokeswoman said on Sunday.
- 22:34 13/06/2010
Sixty-seven Kyrgyz public organizations asked the Russian authorities on Sunday to send peacekeepers to the Central Asia republic, where ethnic violence claimed the lives of more than 100 people.
- 21:28 13/06/2010
Thousands of refugees have fled to Uzbekistan from Kyrgyzstan, which has hit by deadly ethnic violence, as the Uzbek authorities have opened the border with Kyrgyzstan.
- 21:23 13/06/2010
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev discussed on Sunday the situation in Kyrgyzstan, which has been hit by deadly ethnic violence, in a telephone conversation with Kyrgyz interim Prime Minister Roza Otunbayeva, president's spokeswoman Nataliya Timakova said.
- 21:08 13/06/2010
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev discussed on Sunday the situation in Kyrgyzstan, which has been hit by deadly ethnic violence, in a telephone conversation with Kyrgyz interim Prime Minister Roza Otunbayeva, president's spokeswoman Nataliya Timakova said.
- 20:37 13/06/2010
Kyrgyz and Uzbek ethnic leaders in Kyrgyzstan agreed on Sunday to begin reconciliation talks following days of ethnic violence that claimed the lives of about 100 people, the president of Kyrgyz public fund Otkrytaya Positsiya said.
- 20:09 13/06/2010
Kyrgyz and Uzbek ethnic leaders in Kyrgyzstan agreed on Sunday to begin reconciliation talks following days of ethnic violence that claimed the lives of about 100 people, the president of Kyrgyz public fund Otkrytaya Positsiya, Dmitry Kabak, said.
- 20:00 13/06/2010
The Russian Defense Ministry sent on Sunday an additional 150 paratroopers to enhance security at Russia's airbase in Kyrgyzstan following deadly ethnic clashes in the country's south, the ministry's official spokesman said.
- 17:44 13/06/2010
Uzbekistan has opened its border with Kyrgyzstan, allowing refugees to enter the country amid deadly ethnic violence which has hit southern Kyrgyzstan, an Uzbek Emergencies Ministry official said on Sunday.
- 17:31 13/06/2010
More than 75,000 ethnic Uzbeks have fled to Uzbekistan from Kyrgyzstan, which has hit by violent ethnic clashes, as the Uzbek authorities have opened the border for refugees, an Uzbek Emergencies Ministry official said on Sunday.
- 17:17 13/06/2010
Ethnic violence in southern Kyrgyzstan have claimed the lives of at least 97 people, a local health ministry spokeswoman said on Sunday.
- 16:56 13/06/2010
Ethnic violence in southern Kyrgyzstan have claimed the lives of at least 97 people, a local health ministry spokeswoman said on Sunday.
- 13:59 13/06/2010
The Kyrgyz interim government made a decision on Sunday to introduce a state of emergency in the entire territory of the Jalalabad Region in south Kyrgyzstan following recent riots and impose a curfew in the area
- 13:43 13/06/2010
The Kyrgyz interim government made a decision on Sunday to introduce a state of emergency in the entire territory of the Jalalabad Region in south Kyrgyzstan following recent riots and impose a curfew in the area
- 12:39 13/06/2010
The Kyrgyz interim government has issued a decree allowing the Defense Ministry to call up reservists aged under 50 to stabilize the situation in southern Kyrgyzstan hit by recent riots, the ministry's press office said on Sunday
- 11:51 13/06/2010
Ethnic violence in southern Kyrgyzstan have claimed the lives of at least 82 people, leaving over 1,076 injured, the Kyrgyz news agency AKIpress cited the latest report by the country's health ministry on Sunday
- 09:14 13/06/2010
The nighttime curfew imposed in the south of Kyrgyzstan over recent riots will not be extended to twenty-four hours, the news agency AKIpress reported on Sunday, referring to the Kyrgyz Interior Ministry
- 08:52 13/06/2010
A round-the-clock curfew has been imposed in south Kyrgyzstan following ethnic riots that swept the region in the last few days, AKIpress news agency reported on Sunday
- 07:56 13/06/2010
Ethnic violence in southern Kyrgyzstan claimed the lives of at least 80 people, leaving over 1,060 injured, the Kyrgyz news agency AKIpress cited the latest report by the country's health ministry on Sunday.
- 05:22 13/06/2010
A Russian emergencies ministry cargo plane carrying six Kyrgyz citizens who were seriously injured during riots in the south of the country landed early on Sunday in Moscow.
- 03:47 13/06/2010
Local authorities in southern Kyrgyzstan have taken the situation "under relative control" following ethnic riots that swept through the region in the last two days, Kyrgyz media reported.
- 23:10 12/06/2010
Kyrgyz interim government passed a decree declaring a partial mobilization of the civilian reservists in the wake of violence's outbursts in south Kyrgyzstan, an interim government spokesman said on Saturday.
- 21:59 12/06/2010
Over 700 refugees crossed the Uzbek border fleeing Kyrgyzstan hit by the mass inter-ethnic riots, the deputy head of the Kyrgyz Border Service said on Saturday.
- 20:51 12/06/2010
Inter-ethnic violence in south Kyrgyzstan claimed the lives of 75 people, leaving over 900 injured, the Kyrgyz news agency AKI-press cited the country's health ministry as saying on Saturday.
- 18:24 12/06/2010
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev orders humanitarian aid sent to south Kyrgyzstan, which was hit by the inter-ethnic riots, a presidential spokeswoman Natalia Timakova said on Saturday.
- 17:38 12/06/2010
The Kyrgyz interim government lifted a state of emergency and curfew in the country's southern city of Jalalabad, the deputy head of the interim government said on Saturday.
- 17:06 12/06/2010
Russian and Kyrgyz airlines canceled the flights to the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh hit by the continuing inter-ethnic clashes, airlines officials said on Saturday.
- 15:42 12/06/2010
Kyrgyzstan’s interim leader appealed to Russia on Saturday to send troops to the south of the country as ongoing clashes between Kyrgyz and Uzbek groups left over 60 dead.
- 13:31 12/06/2010
Kyrgyzstan’s interim leader said on Saturday that the Central Asian state wanted Russian peacekeepers to help stop ongoing ethnic violence in the south of the country.
- 12:43 12/06/2010
Kyrgyzstan’s interim leader said on Saturday that the Central Asian state had requested that Russia send peacekeepers to help stop violence in the south of the country.
- 11:48 12/06/2010
Hospitals in Kyrgyzstan’s southern city of Osh are unable to feed the hundreds of people injured in continuing inter-ethnic clashes, the health ministry said on Saturday.
- 08:47 12/06/2010
Inter-ethnic violence in south Kyrgyzstan has claimed the lives of 49 people, health officials say.
- 22:38 11/06/2010
The number of ethnic Russians who want to leave Kyrgyzstan has risen dramatically, with many fearing persecution on ethnic grounds, a representative of Russian Migration Service said on Friday.
- 19:46 11/06/2010
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called on Friday for a halt to the violence in Kyrgyzstan, where a new wave of unrest has broken out, his spokesman said.
- 17:33 11/06/2010
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) post-Soviet security bloc will not intervene to stabilize the situation in volatile Kyrgyzstan.
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