The Russian defense minister said that Russia and Kyrgyzstan had a common history, to a large extent a common destiny ...

A Finnish businessman wanted in connection with one of the largest corruption scandals in Finland’s history has been quietly ...

Arto Autio has been charged with fraud for his alleged role in a major embezzlement scandal in Finland. Authorities have ...

Western media have historically neglected Central Asia as a region, and it is even hard to find information on female ...

At present, only two of Kyrgyzstan’s five former presidents enjoy the privileges of “ex-president” status: Roza Otunbayeva and Sooronbay Jeenbekov. Akayev, Bakiyev, and Atambayev do not.

Kyrgyzstan’s current president, Sadyr Japarov, knows this history well: He lived it. After serving in Bakiyev’s administration, he helped lead mass demonstrations in 2012 against newly elected ...

Kyrgyzstan's President Kurmanbek Bakiyev has reportedly left the country after two days of violent mass protests in which dozens of people have been killed. Opposition leaders said Mr. Bakiyev ...

said that the government had added Akayev and Kyrgyzstan’s other exiled ousted president, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, to the growing list of wanted persons in connection to corruption at the Kumtor Gold ...

2009 January - President Kurmanbek Bakiyev announces the closure of the US air base at Manas, after Russia offers Kyrgyzstan more than $2bn in loans and other aid. US officials deny having been ...

Bakiyev was overthrown in 2010, in a revolution far more violent than the one that displaced the first post-Soviet president Askar Akayev five years before. Violence erupted between ethnic Kyrgyz ...

Leadership competitions aren’t new in Kyrgyzstan, a country of 6 million wedged between Russia and China. This is the third time the country’s citizens have forced their president to flee from ...