BISHKEK -- Kyrgyzstan’s parliament on October 16 approved the transfer of presidential powers to recently elected Prime Minister Sadyr Japarov after days of uncertainty and political crisis amid mass ...

BISHKEK – 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 ...

On June 25, Kyrgyzstan’s parliament adopted a new mass media law that will subject all publications, including online outlets, to mandatory registration, and bar foreign participation in founding ...

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (AP) — Kyrgyzstan’s parliament backed a motion Wednesday to review the operating license of a company developing a major gold mine that accounts for 12 percent of the Central Asian ...

BISHKEK (Reuters) - Kyrgyzstan's President Sadyr Japarov has persuaded parliament to push back the date of the next election by several months, in an indication he may be turning his thoughts towards ...

Lawmakers in Kyrgyzstan have, in a widely anticipated move, given their definitive backing to a bill that stands to cripple the work of nongovernmental organizations advocating for human rights and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Honour guards march near the renewed Kyrgyz national flag during a ceremony in Bishkek BISHKEK (Reuters) -Kyrgyzstan's parliament ...

Technically, 83 of 90 members of the Kyrgyz parliament, the Jogorku Kenesh, were registered at the February 22 meeting at which the body passed in its second reading the controversial “foreign ...

Violating parliamentary procedure, lawmakers in Kyrgyzstan have overwhelmingly approved a controversial bill on misinformation that activists fear will further limit free speech online and suppress ...

MOSCOW, Feb. 19 -- The Kyrgyzstan parliament voted Thursday to close a U.S. air base that the Pentagon had hoped to use to expand NATO operations in Afghanistan and reduce the need to ship supplies ...

Centerra Gold (CG.TO) is down to $8.20, well below previous yr low of $8.95, after the Kyrgyz Parliament held a session today to discuss a report released on June 18, 2012 by a Parliamentary ...

BISHKEK, June 26 (Reuters) - Kyrgyzstan's parliament has approved a bill that tightens state controls over media outlets, in what critics say is a blow to press freedom in a country once seen as more ...