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Kyrgyz law enforcement conducts arrests, searches, and interrogations of journalists and opposition figures, including former first lady Raisa Atambayeva and several former legislators allied with former president Almazbek Atambayev, in an investigation into alleged calls for mass unrest ahead of the November 30 snap election.
2025-11-22

Kyrgyzstan takes down a 23-meter-tall statue of the Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin, thought to be the tallest statue of Lenin in Central Asia.
2025-06-7

The Kyrgyzstan parliament announces that they have backed a plan to seize the country's Kumtor Gold Mine after Centerra Gold said it would take the Kyrgyzstan government to an international court.
2021-05-17

The prosecutor general's office of Tajikistan launches a criminal investigation into servicemen and citizens of Kyrgyzstan for "unleashing an aggressive war".
2021-05-3

Kyrgyzstan is expected to receive 504,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in March.
2021-02-2

The President of Kyrgyzstan Almazbek Atambayev signs a presidential decree officially recognizing March 17, March 24, and April 7 as public holidays for Kyrgyzstan. The dates are meant to commemorate the days of Kyrgyzstan's massive anti-government revolts. On March 17, 2002, during anti-government protests in the Aksy District, police killed four protesters, while March 24 and April 7 commemorate the Tulip Revolution of 2006 and the Second Kyrgyz Revolution of 2010, respectively.
2016-04-4

The suspects are brothers. The at-large suspect is identified as a Kyrgyzstan-born Cambridge resident, 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The deceased brother is identified as 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev. A number of YouTube videos, posted by the suspects, surface that seek Muslim takeover of Chechnya.
2013-04-19

The death toll from unrest in southern Kyrgyzstan riots reaches 251.
2010-06-22

Kyrgyzstan unrest death toll rises to 192. 913 people were hospitalized.
2010-06-17