- 22:01 20/09/2010
Uzbek President Islam Karimov called on Monday for an international investigation into the violent clashes between Kyrgyz and ethnic Uzbeks in the south of Kyrgyzstan in June, an Uzbek Foreign Ministry spokesman said.
- 20:35 01/09/2010
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe will continue talks with the Kyrgyz authorities on the deployment of an OSCE police mission, the head of the organization's Conflict Prevention Centre said.
- 15:46 01/09/2010
The Kyrgyz Prosecutor General's Office has charged prominent Uzbek diaspora leaders in southern Kyrgyzstan with instigating deadly interethnic clashes in May and June.
- 13:41 28/08/2010
Kyrgyzstan does not have sufficient budget funds to allow it to rebuild for free homes that were destroyed during violence in the south of the country in June, a deputy prime minister said on Saturday.
- 06:29 24/08/2010
The Kyrgyz government should take prompt measures to avoid "another explosion" in the country's south where the situation remains strained following recent inter-ethnic riots, the International Crisis Group said in its latest report.
- 13:30 20/08/2010
Russian doctors are analyzing DNA samples taken from hundreds of unidentified dead bodies recovered after the ethnic violence in southern Kyrgyzstan in June, a top Kyrgyz health official said on Friday.
- 13:39 13/08/2010
Russia will send a supplementary $10 million in humanitarian aid to Kyrgyzstan, a Foreign Ministry source told RIA Novosti on Friday.
- 13:15 22/07/2010
The brother of Kyrgyzstan's ousted president will be transferred to the capital, Bishkek, to face charges of being behind May riots in the country, the interior minister said on Thursday.
- 12:49 18/07/2010
The United States is ready to help the interim government of Kyrgyzstan stabilize the situation in the country's south, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg said on Sunday.
- 15:00 17/07/2010
Sending a police advisory group from Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to Kyrgyzstan for four months will cost several million Euros, Director of OSCE Conflict Prevention Herbert Zalberg said on Saturday.
- 08:55 17/07/2010
Kazakhstan will give Kyrgyzstan $10 million towards building materials and power plant fuel, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev said during the opening of an informal meeting of OSCE foreign ministers in the Kazakh city of Almaty.
- 08:33 17/07/2010
Kazakhstan will give Kyrgyzstan $10 million towards building materials and fuel for power plants, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev said during the opening of an informal meeting of OSCE foreign ministers.
- 10:20 16/07/2010
Kyrgyzstan has accepted European proposals for an international investigation into interethnic violence that killed hundreds in the south of the country last month and named a Finnish parliamentarian to lead the probe.
- 06:07 16/07/2010
The French and German foreign ministers will pay a visit to Kyrgyzstan on Friday to estimate the situation in the impoverished former Soviet republic after bloody interethnic clashes in mid-June.
- 12:22 13/07/2010
Recent interethnic violence in southern Kyrgyzstan was a new form of terrorism, the deputy head of the Kyrgyz interim government said on Tuesday.
- 18:50 12/07/2010
Russia and Kazakhstan are considering sending an additional $10 million in aid to Kyrgyzstan, the Russian finance minister said Monday.
- 11:16 09/07/2010
The interethnic violence in the southern Kyrgyz cities of Osh and Jalalabad in June cost Kyrgyzstan about $71 million, the country's emergencies ministry said.
- 14:43 08/07/2010
The issue of creating a new Russian military base in Kyrgyzstan's south is still on the agenda, the Kyrgyz Foreign Ministry said.
- 13:30 08/07/2010
Kyrgyzstan on Thursday announced it has lifted the police checkpoints surrounding its capital Bishkek after the stabilization of the social and political situation in the Central Asian country.
- 11:37 08/07/2010
Russian paratroopers have returned to their home base in Russia from Kyrgyzstan, a Russian Defense Ministry spokesman said on Thursday.
- 10:23 08/07/2010
Kyrgyz authorities plan to allocate $100 million from a Russian loan received in 2009 to restore the violent-hit southern regions back to normal, a deputy prime minister from the country's interim government said on Thursday.
- 13:58 01/07/2010
Kyrgyzstan needs more aid from the international community to return to normal life after the damage caused by the recent interethnic clashes in the south of the country, Kyrgyz Deputy Premier Almazbek Atambayev said on Thursday.
- 13:29 01/07/2010
The rapid reaction forces of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) will not be deployed to troubled Kyrgyzstan, the post-Soviet security bloc's secretary general said Thursday.
- 04:00 01/07/2010
Almost all people who fled to Uzbekistan during ethnic violence in southern Kyrgyzstan have returned to their homeland, a spokesman for the Uzbek foreign ministry said.
- 05:03 29/06/2010
The current political crisis in Kyrgyzstan was caused by a power struggle between domestic drug clans.
- 10:14 28/06/2010
The death toll in ethnic violence in the south of the ex-Soviet Central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan has increased to 294 people, 24.kg news agency said citing the country's Health Ministry
- 19:39 27/06/2010
Kyrgyzstan's interim government extended on Sunday the state of emergency in the south of the country until August 10.
- 14:44 27/06/2010
Kyrgyzstan's authorities intend to extend a curfew imposed in the country's south over recent ethnic clashes and temporarily lifted over a referendum on a new constitution until August 10, AKIpress reported on Sunday, referring to interim Prime Minister Roza Otunbayeva.
- 13:06 27/06/2010
The death toll in the southern Kyrgyz ethnic clashes has risen to 283 people, AKIpress news agency reported on Sunday, referring to data of Kyrgyzstan's health ministry.
- 17:05 26/06/2010
Head of the Kyrgyz interim government Roza Otunbayeva has arrived in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh to take part in Sunday's referendum on the constitution, a government official said on Saturday
- 10:54 26/06/2010
Nearly all the refugees who fled across the border to neighboring Uzbekistan have returned to their homes in Kyrgyzstan, interim defense minister Ismail Isakov said on Saturday.
- 19:24 25/06/2010
The United States intends to allocate an additional $32 million in aid to Kyrgyzstan to help the country deal with the aftermath of recent inter-ethnic riots, the U.S. embassy in Tashkent said on Friday.
- 16:47 25/06/2010
The nephew of ousted Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev has admitted his involvement in sparking interethnic violence in southern Kyrgyzstan, the country's deputy interior minister said on Friday.
- 13:37 25/06/2010
A police assessment mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has arrived in the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek to help stabilize the situation in the country, a Kyrgyz Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said on Friday.
- 13:20 25/06/2010
The Kyrgyz Interior Ministry on Friday announced it has detained the nephew of ousted President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, 24.kg news agency reported.
- 11:58 25/06/2010
Russia is sending two more cargo planes with medical supplies and humanitarian aid to help Kyrgyzstan overcome the current economic and political crisis in the country.
- 11:48 25/06/2010
The Kyrgyz Interior Ministry on Friday announced it has detained the nephew of ousted President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, 24.kg news agency reported.
- 05:29 25/06/2010
The head of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and its working group will head to Kyrgyzstan on Friday to assess the situation there, the post-Soviet security bloc said.
- 02:54 25/06/2010
The situation in Kyrgyzstan should be settled through international efforts, U.S. President Barack Obama said at a press conference with his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday.
- 01:57 25/06/2010
Russia is not planning to send peacekeepers to Kyrgyzstan, where deadly inter-ethnic clashes claimed hundreds of lives earlier this month, President Dmitry Medvedev said Thursday.
- 14:52 24/06/2010
The death toll in the southern Kyrgyz ethnic clashes has risen to 261 people, Kyrgyzstan's health ministry said Thursday.
- 14:44 24/06/2010
Afghan militants were sent to Kyrgyzstan to organize interethnic clashes in the Jalalabad and Osh regions of the ex-Soviet Central Asian republic, the Kyrgyz national security chief said on Thursday.
- 14:27 24/06/2010
The tragedy in Kyrgyzstan following the April revolt attracted international media attention.
- 08:14 24/06/2010
The official death toll in the southern Kyrgyz interethnic clashes has risen to 258 people, the AKIpress agency said on Thursday citing the republic's health ministry.
- 18:12 23/06/2010
Drug dealers and religious extremists could be behind the deadly interethnic clashes in Kyrgyzstan earlier this month, former Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev said on Wednesday.
- 17:25 23/06/2010
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) proposed on Wednesday sending international police to stabilize the situation in Kyrgyzstan.
- 16:42 23/06/2010
Osh region Commandant Baktybek Alymbekov cut the curfew by three hours in the southern Kyrgyz city and nearby districts, where a state of emergency was introduced following the Kyrgyz-Uzbek ethnic clashes.
- 16:38 22/06/2010
Kyrgyz authorities should stabilize the situation in the country themselves, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday.
- 14:12 22/06/2010
The Communist party of Kyrgyzstan urged the interim government on Tuesday to cancel Sunday's referendum on the new Kyrgyz constitution due to violent ethnic clashes in the south of the country
- 12:57 22/06/2010
About 12,000 Kyrgyz refugees are waiting for permits to cross into Uzbekistan at the Pakhta-Abad border checkpoint. While allowing most women and children to cross and settle in temporary camps, Uzbek authorities are holding up the men “to avoid unrest.”
- 09:15 22/06/2010
No outside force was behind last weeks violent clashes in the south of Kyrgyzstan, in which up to 2000 people are thought to have been killed, the officer who led police during the unrest said
- 01:39 22/06/2010
Members of ousted President Kurmanbek Bakiyev's retinue were behind the deadly inter-ethnic riots that swept through Kyrgyzstan earlier this month, the first deputy chief of the republic's State Security Service has said.
- 19:18 21/06/2010
Durdona Abakdjanova looks fragile. She has not slept much in the last few weeks. Instead, she has spent her nights posting news wires, sending messages and communicating with her family and friends in Kyrgyzstan.
- 15:55 21/06/2010
Residents of the Kyrgyz city of Osh lined up for days to get humanitarian aid packs from the City Hall warehouse, a RIA Novosti correspondent reports from Osh. Three Emergencies Ministry airplanes delivered 130 tons of humanitarian aid for victims of recent violence to Kyrgyzstan on June 16.
- 12:55 21/06/2010
Kazakhstan and Turkey will develop a joint plan on resolving the situation in Kyrgyzstan, where unrest is thought to have caused the deaths of up to 2000 people, the Turkish foreign minister said on Monday.
- 10:23 21/06/2010
The forthcoming referendum on the new Kyrgyz constitution may prevent further unrest in Kyrgyzstan, interim president Roza Otunbayeva said on Monday.
- 08:58 21/06/2010
Over 7,000 Kyrgyz refugees have returned home from neighboring Uzbekistan, 24.kg news agency quoted deputy chairman of the Kyrgyz border police as saying.
- 21:06 20/06/2010
Pope Benedict XVI has urged to cease violence and to restore peace and security in the ex-Soviet Central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan, Vatican radio said Sunday.
- 19:43 20/06/2010
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that the forthcoming referendum on a new constitution in the ex-Soviet Central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan will be important for stabilization of a situation in the country, Russian Foreign Ministry said.
- 23:53 19/06/2010
Kyrgyz authorities have extended the emergency situation in a number of districts in the Osh region of the Central Asian republic, the interim government's press service said on Saturday.
- 14:38 19/06/2010
Russian businessman of Uzbek background Alisher Usmanov has allotted 150 million rubles (some$5 million) for humanitarian aid to Kyrgyz refugees in Uzbekistan, a statement from the businessman, issued on Saturday said.
- 13:02 19/06/2010
The majority of barricades in Osh that ethnic Uzbeks have built to protect themselves from Kyrgyz violence, are dismantled, policemen and law enforcement officers mop up the remaining areas, Osh region police chief Omurbek Isakov told RIA Novosti on Saturday.
- 10:15 19/06/2010
Kyrgyz police has initiated 90 criminal cases over killings committed during the interethnic conflict in southern Kyrgyzstan, Osh region Commandant Baktybek Alymbekov said on Saturday.
- 06:57 19/06/2010
Two Russian planes carrying aid for Kyrgyz refugees in Uzbekistan landed on Saturday, an emergencies ministry spokesman said.
- 03:30 19/06/2010
The United Nations launched an appeal to collect over $71 million in aid for violence-hit Kyrgyzstan, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told reporters.
- 02:43 19/06/2010
Two Russian emergencies ministry planes with aid for people displaced during ethnic violence in Kyrgyzstan took off from an airport near Moscow on Saturday, a ministry spokesman said.
- 01:16 19/06/2010
The United Nations launched an appeal to collect $71 million in aid for violence-hit Kyrgyzstan, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told reporters on Friday.
- 23:50 18/06/2010
One of ousted Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev's sons has received temporary political asylum in Great Britain, a source close to the family told RIA Novosti on Friday.
- 22:44 18/06/2010
Kyrgyz authorities have asked Russia to send troops to protect strategic installations in the Central Asian state but Moscow has yet to make a decision, a Russian Defense Ministry source said Friday.
- 22:24 18/06/2010
Uzbek President Islam Karimov said the violence in Kyrgyzstan was organized by a third party in an attempt to drag Uzbekistan into a conflict with its Central Asian neighbor, the president's press service told RIA Novosti on Friday.
- 21:15 18/06/2010
A number of international and regional organizations, as well as countries neighboring violence-hit Kyrgyzstan are holding consultations on possible international intervention to settle the crisis in the Central Asian country.
- 20:42 18/06/2010
Kyrgyz authorities have asked Russia to send troops to protect strategic installations in the Central Asian state but Moscow has yet to make a decision, a Russian Defense Ministry source said on Friday.
- 18:55 18/06/2010
Interview with Sergei Abashin, head of the Central Asia section of the Center for Central Asia, the Caucasus and the Volga-Urals Region at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences.
- 18:54 18/06/2010
I think the acute phase of rioting has passed and no troops need be sent to Kyrgyzstan. The immediate goal is to deliver humanitarian aid and help refugees by creating corridors for their movement, ensuring their return home and safety. This calls for a different type of operation, and I think, in principle, that the Kyrgyz government should deal with this problem, preferably with help from public organizations or forces such as units from Russia’s Emergencies Ministry.
- 17:44 18/06/2010
Uzbeks in Osh - Kyrgyzstan's second largest city - alleged on Thursday that on one street alone, ethnic Kyrgyz men sexually assaulted and beat more than ten Uzbek women and girls, including some pregnant women and children as young as 12 during the ethnic violence that erupted last week.
- 16:37 18/06/2010
A special plane dispatched by the Emergencies Ministry transported the refugees from Kyrgyzstan to Moscow on the night of June 18. The 97 passengers, all of them Russian citizens, were met at Domodedovo airport by relatives, officials from the Emergencies Ministry, as well as doctors and psychologists.
- 15:44 18/06/2010
Tajik authorities have told the United Nations they will keep their borders open in case refugees from neighboring Kyrgyzstan, hit by interethnic violence, start fleeing across the border, a UN official said on Friday
- 12:02 18/06/2010
The head of the Kyrgyz interim government Roza Otunbayeva said in and interview to a Russian business daily there was no need to deploy peacekeepers from post-Soviet security bloc in the troubled South of the Central Asian state
- 10:01 18/06/2010
Interim President Roza Otunbayeva has put the death toll from violence in southern Kyrgyzstan at nearly 2,000, a Russian business daily said on Friday.
- 04:27 18/06/2010
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said the worst scenario for Kyrgyzstan, hit by inter-ethnic clashes, would be in case Taliban-style radicals come to power amid the ongoing unrest in the country.
- 22:06 17/06/2010
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev gave instructions to help Uzbekistan accept refugees from neighboring Kyrgyzstan hit by interethnic violence, the president's spokeswoman said Thursday.
- 21:07 17/06/2010
Member states of a post-Soviet security bloc see no need yet to send troops to troubled Kyrgyzstan, but could send advisors, the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) press service said on Thursday.
- 17:20 17/06/2010
The Kyrgyz interim government introduced amendments under which the country's constitution referendum could be canceled if the Central Asian republic remains in a state of emergency, a document published on Thursday on the interim government's website said.
- 16:54 17/06/2010
Ten checkpoints have been set up around the city of Osh, and military units from the Kyrgyz Ministry of Defense are enforcing law and order. According to the Ministry of Defense, the military operation is being carried out in order to “prevent the possible infiltration of destructive forces into the city center.”
- 14:38 17/06/2010
The situation in the Kyrgyz city of Osh, the scene of mass interethnic clashes, has been taken under control, a deputy interim prime minister said on Thursday
- 13:54 17/06/2010
Thousands of ethnic Uzbeks on Wednesday stayed in refugee camps in Uzbekistan, having escaped ethnic violence in Kyrgyzstan that has driven much of the Uzbek population from the country's poor, rural south.
More than 100,000 Uzbeks have fled to the country, with tens of thousands more camped on the Kyrgyz side of the border.
- 11:37 17/06/2010
The real death toll from interethnic clashes in southern Kyrgyzstan has exceeded 1,800, nearly 10 times higher than the official figures, a secret service source said on Thursday
- 11:36 17/06/2010
Kyrgyz interim government is set to appeal again for the extradition of the former president's son on suspicion of financing the recent deadly interethnic clashes in the south of the country, the interim deputy prime minister said on Thursday
- 07:49 17/06/2010
At least 191 people have been killed in inter-ethnic clashes in southern Kyrgyzstan, the Kyrgyz Health Ministry reported on Thursday.
- 23:17 16/06/2010
Uzbek President Islam Karimov and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon discussed by telephone on Wednesday issues of speeding up deliveries of humanitarian cargo to violence-hit Kyrgyzstan.
- 19:13 16/06/2010
Three Russian Emergencies Ministry aircraft with 130 tons of humanitarian aid landed in Bishkek on Wednesday.
- 18:39 16/06/2010
Heavy arms fire rung out again over the Kyrgyz city of Osh before dawn Wednesday as authorities struggled to bring order to the Central Asian country's south after days of deadly ethnic riots.
The violence - which erupted last Thursday in Osh between the majority Kyrgyz population and Uzbeks and spread to surrounding regions - has prompted more than 100,000 Uzbeks to flee for their lives to Uzbekistan, with tens of thousands more camped on the Kyrgyz side of the border or stranded in a no man's land.
- 18:19 16/06/2010
Over 15,000 refugees have gathered on the Kyrgyz border after the recent violence in the Central Asian country's southern Jalalabad region, the State National Security Service reported on Wednesday.
- 15:09 16/06/2010
The U.S. has allocated Kyrgyzstan $10.3 million assistance as ethnic violence continues in the Central Asian state, the U.S. embassy in Bishkek said on Wednesday.
- 14:00 16/06/2010
Inter-ethnic clashes broke out in southern Kyrgyzstan on June 11.
- 12:43 16/06/2010
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon have discussed ongoing ethnic violence in southern Kyrgyzstan, the Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.
- 12:13 16/06/2010
The head of Kyrgyzstan's Security Council is on his way to Moscow to discuss ongoing ethnic violence in southern Kyrgyzstan, the interim government's press service said on Wednesday.
- 08:01 16/06/2010
The U.S. is holding talks with Russia on the situation in violence-hit Kyrgyzstan and is ready to provide aid to the Central Asian republic, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, Philip Crowley, has said
- 02:41 16/06/2010
Russia will deliver an additional 130 metric tons of humanitarian aid to Kyrgyzstan on Wednesday to help those affected by deadly inter-ethnic violence in the Central Asian country, the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry has said.
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