A 26-year-old housewife from southern Kyrgyzstan said she fell victim to sex traffickers who lured her to Turkey with the promise of a job as a domestic worker. She managed to escape sexual slavery but wants those she accuses of deceiving her to face justice.
Kyrgyz activist Altyn Kapalova wrote on Facebook on July 2 that the Constitutional Court had ordered the government to legalize matronymic names following her long-running battle to allow children to choose to use their mother's name instead of their father's as part of their full legal names.
A Kyrgyz artist is keeping alive a puppet theater tradition dating back centuries. Esenbek Mairykov, 71, learned to carve dancing mountain goats from his grandfather and hopes to pass on the art, known as tak-teke, to future generations. His family also creates komuz three-string lutes.
An independent media group in Kyrgyzstan has accused the country’s National Television and Radio Corporation of creating a “troll factory” to promote the government’s agenda. The president’s office and state TV have denied the report.
RFE/RL correspondents investigated how companies in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan are trading with Russia in "dual-use" electronic components that can be used for civilian or military purposes. Statistics show trade in such goods has skyrocketed since Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
Concert organizers in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan have canceled two Russian singers' performances -- one who opposes Russia’s war in Ukraine and another who supports it.
Two members of a Kyrgyz group who went on trial on June 22 for protesting against a border deal with Uzbekistan have been transferred to house arrest.
A Kyrgyz parliamentary commission on June 22 decided to allow the launch of a probe against opposition lawmaker Adakhan Madumarov over his role in signing a Kyrgyz-Tajik border deal in 2009 when he led the country's Security Council.
An RFE/RL investigation reveals how sanctioned Western electronics make their way to Russia via Central Asian firms -- some set up shortly after the Kremlin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine -- and end up in the hands of companies that have supplied the Russian defense industry.
RFE/RL correspondents investigate how companies in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan are trading with Russia in dual-use electronic components that can be used for civilian or military purposes.
A group of 27 Kyrgyz politicians, activists, and journalists, who were arrested last year for protesting against a border deal with Uzbekistan, have gone on trial on multiple charges, including plotting mass unrest.
Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov has signed into law a property amnesty bill that the government says is aimed at increasing domestic and foreign investment in the Kyrgyz economy and decreasing the level of the so-called "shadow economy."
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