Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyz Thirst for Better Life

Con-merchants preying on a Kyrgyz thirst for a better life are making a killing out of bogus job opportunities in the United States

21 Feb 05

Uzbeks in Kyrgyzstan, the country's second largest ethnic group, are increasingly unhappy with their loss of status

21 Feb 05

Tuberculosis has reached epidemic proportions in Kyrgyz prisons

21 Feb 05

Unemployed Kazaks are fuming over the influx of illegal foreign workers

21 Feb 05

Farmers in Uzbekistan's borderlands are falling victim to mines laid by their own army

21 Feb 05

Campaigners say Kyrgyz detainees are increasingly falling victim to arbitrary police violence

21 Feb 05

Rights activists deny newspaper claims that foreign money is funding anti-government demonstrations across the country.

21 Feb 05

The assassination of a Beijing diplomat is being unofficially blamed on members of the Uigur community.

21 Feb 05

Captured senior IMU official talks to IWPR about his experiences in the guerrilla movement.

21 Feb 05

Government, opposition and civil society leaders come together in a new initiative aimed at defusing the growing political crisis.

21 Feb 05

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