Graphic: Russian Citizens Granted Kyrgyz Citizenship Since 2021 Many of these newly minted citizens were ethnic Kyrgyz with Russian passports, including those who returned home following the invasion.

After the video, tell students that according to estimates, up to a third of all ethnic Kyrgyz women in Kyrgyzstan may have been wedded in nonconsensual bride kidnappings. Then discuss the ...

Osh, Kyrgyzstan (CNN)-- Kyrgyzstan will investigate allegations that government troops were involved in ethnic violence, an official said Sunday. Col. Kursan Asanov, appointed by the Kyrgyz ...

Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, two ex-Soviet Central Asian states, said on Friday that they had resolved a decades-old border dispute that had sparked clashes between different ethnic groups that had ...

His life is at serious risk, amid the spread of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic in Kyrgyzstan and he must be released. The prosecution and conviction of Kyrgyzstani human rights defender Azimjan Askarov, ...

"Parliamentary deputies declared Kimmo Kiljunen, a former Finnish member of parliament, persona non grata in the volatile Central Asian state after his report implicated Kyrgyz security forces in the ...

UNITED NATIONS, June 19, (AFP) - The United Nations is launching a 71-million-dollar humanitarian appeal to assist more than one million people affected by the ethnic clashes in Kyrgyzstan, UN chief ...

In Kyrgyzstan, Askarov was sentenced to life imprisonment for inciting inter-ethnic discord, organizing mass riots and complicity in killing a police officer during mass protests. In June 2010 ...