Kyrgyzstan has some 7 million people. Figures would say that close to 90 percent of the population are Sunni Muslims, and some 8 percent would be Russian Orthodox Christians and minorities. The rest, ...

The people of Kyrgyzstan have a well-earned reputation for “street democracy.” Since emerging from the breakup of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, citizens in the Central Asian republic ...

The tombstone of a person who died from the Black Death in the 14th century, found at the Kara-Djigach cemetery near Bishkek. (P.-G. Borbone, M. A. Spyrou et al./Nature) Kyrgyzstan made international ...

The government, security services, and nongovernmental organizations in Kyrgyzstan are concerned about Kyrgyz nationals -- including women -- fighting with the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria ...

Kyrgyzstan authorities on April 14, 2025 detained a human rights defender claiming she has ties to a criminal case, Human Rights Watch said today. The activist, Rita Karasartova, was detained for ...