Kyrgyzstan's president has asked the minority Social Democratic Party to form a new coalition government in a bid to restore political normalcy to the struggling Central Asian nation, according to AP.
Almazbek Atambayev said Thursday that members (...)
Kyrgyzstan inaugurated a new president Thursday in the first peaceful transition of power in the former Soviet Central Asian nation, according to AP.
Speaking after his swearing-in, Almazbek Atambayev called on all political camps to unite to (...)
AlHijjah 16, 1432, Nov 12, 2011, SPA - Prime Minister Almazbek Atambayev was officially confirmed on Saturday as the winner of Kyrgyzstan's presidential election, securing nearly 63 percent of the Oct. 30 vote. Atambayev won an outright (...)
AlHijjah 3, 1432, Oct 30, 2011, SPA -- Voter turnout in Kyrgyzstan's presidential election on Sunday was 57.9 percent, the Central Election Commission said, citing preliminary data, Reuters reported.
The election is set to complete bold reforms to (...)
Kyrgyzstan's parliament on Thursday set Oct. 30 as the date for a presidential election designed to move the country closer to completing constitutional reforms aimed at creating Central Asia's first parliamentary democracy, Reuters reported.
The (...)
Akhir 26, 1432, March 31, 2011, SPA-- Kyrgyzstan's president fired the country's prosecutor general on Thursday over allegations his wife had profited from murky dealings with the Russian partners in a local mobile phone company, AP reported.
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Awwal 14, 1432 H/Feb 17, 2011, SPA -- Kyrgyzstan's parliament voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to immortalise Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin by naming a mountain in his honour, in a move to reinforce ties with Moscow.
The Central Asian (...)
Security forces in Kyrgyzstan have killed two suspected terrorists believed to have shot three policemen to death a day earlier, AP reported.
Marat Imankulov, an official of the State Committee for National Security, said Wednesday that another (...)
Kyrgyzstan's parliament approved a new government on Friday, effectively completing the nation's constitutional reform aimed at creating Central Asia's first parliamentary democracy and ending months of chaos.
Almazbek Atambayev was approved as (...)
Hijjah 04, 1431, Nov 10, 2010, SPA -- Kyrgyzstan's newly empowered parliament has convened for its first session, setting the stage for coalition talks among the five elected political parties.
The Central Asian nation voted last month to elect (...)
Qa'da 03, 1431, Oct 11, SPA -- International vote monitors have hailed Kyrgyzstan's parliamentary election, saying it was marked by political pluralism that further entrenched democracy in the Central Asian nation.
The Organization for Security and (...)
Qa'dah, Oct 10, SPA -- Kyrgyz voters cast their ballots on Sunday to create the first parliamentary democracy in Central Asia, in an election many hope can unite the country.
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has (...)
The head of a leading party running for election in Kyrgyzstan says an incoming government will likely sharply increase the rent for a U.S. air base in the country.
Ak-Shumkar leader Temir Sariyev told The Associated Press on Thursday that a (...)
Kyrgyzstan's government is setting up a national commission to investigate last month's ethnic violence, which claimed hundreds of lives and left thousands homeless, according to AP.
Kyrgyz authorities said Thursday the commission will submit its (...)
Kyrgyzstan's President Roza Otunbayeva has formed a caretaker government that will run the country until parliamentary elections in October.
The unveiling of the new Cabinet Wednesday comes after the resignation of leading ministers from the (...)
Kyrgyzstan asked for up to $500 million in aid on Thursday to restore two southern cities where hundreds of people are living in the ruins of homes destroyed during the worst violence in the country's modern history, Reuters reported.
About 300 (...)
Kyrgyzstan's provisional leader Roza Otunbayeva was sworn in as president Saturday.
Speaking after her inauguration, Otunbayeva, 59, hailed what she described as a momentous new era for Kyrgyzstan.
«In Kyrgyzstan, democracy is a system that has (...)
A military coalition of former
Soviet republics is deploying military advisors to Kyrgyzstan in the
run-up to a constitution referendum on Sunday, dpa quoted the Akipress news
agency as reporting today.
Nikolai Bordjusha, the secretary general (...)
Kyrgyz voters will decide on Sunday whether to become Central Asia's first parliamentary democracy in a referendum that the country's interim leader says is crucial to restoring order after a wave of ethnic bloodshed. More than 250 people were (...)
The U.S. envoy for Central Asia urged Kyrgyzstan on Saturday to create conditions for a safe return of hundreds of thousands of refugees uprooted by last week's outburst of ethnic violence, Reuters reported.
The clashes have killed up to 2,000 (...)
A semblance of stability seemed
to be descending over southern Kyrgyzstan Thursday, a week after
bloody flighting which claimed hundreds of lives broke out, reported
government officials, according to dpa.
However, some skirmishing was still (...)
A senior military official says Kyrgyz mobs have killed about 30 Uzbeks in a village in southern Kyrgyzstan.
Talaaibek Myrzabayev, the chief military conscription officer in the capital, Bishkek, tells The Associated Press the killings happened (...)
Kyrgyzstan's interim government appealed to Russia on Saturday to send peacekeeping troops to restore order after at least 50 people were killed in ethnic riots in the south of the ex-Soviet Central Asian republic.
"We need the entry of outside (...)
Authorities in Kyrgyzstan said
today afternoon that the death toll in a night of street violence in
the southern city of Osh had risen to at least 37, according to dpa.
"The number of victims can rise because many of the injured are (...)
Supporters of Kyrgyzstan's
interim government Friday forced backers of deposed president
Kurmanbek Bakiyev to leave a government building they occupied in the
south of the Central Asian country, the Akipress news agency
reported, according to (...)
