Kyrgyzstan

Last week’s violence was some of the worst the border has seen, with more than 40 killed. 

Reportedly one Kyrgyz man has been killed in the clashes over a long-unsettled border between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.

Another bad year for democracy across the former Soviet Union, with Kyrgyzstan slipping further into authoritarianism too. 

Special forces troops from India and Kyrgyzstan started a two-week exercise outside Bishkek on April 16.

Biden has nominated U.S. Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan Donald Lu for assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asia.

Japarov's press secretary claims the president took the posts down himself, but Facebook says they were removed for being harmful "misinformation."

Kyrgyz authorities said they were unable to find evidence of Matraimov’s alleged money laundering, despite thousands of words written by investigative journalists outlining it in detail.

The indifference of many and the votes of some have ushered in Kyrgyzstan’s next political phase: a return to strong presidentialism. 

The Turkic Council aims to grow its political and economic significance.

People on both sides of these possibly shifting borders have strong feelings about it.

“Bride kidnapping” is claimed by some to be a traditional practice. Others call it what it is: forced marriage, which sometimes results in murder.