A new mayor of the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, has been elected by the city council amid protests. Forty-three out of 44 city council members voted on August 8 for Aziz Surakmatov, the only candidate ...

Bishkek is the only capital city in Central Asia that has kept the Soviet-era names of its districts, including the Lenin district. So it didn't seem so strange that Kyrgyz lawmakers and Bishkek city ...

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan, February 13. School construction in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, will include 32 new schools this year, Trend reports via the press service of the Cabinet of Ministers.

Kyrgyzstan's capital Bishkek is set to welcome a new fleet of gas-powered buses from China in the near future, cementing Beijing’s position in a public transport sector where officials are trumpeting ...

Citizens recorded voltage surges and short-term power outages in almost all districts of the capital before midday of June 19 BISHKEK, June 19. /TASS/. Residents of Kyrgyzstan's capital of Bishkek are ...

KVN – the Russian abbreviation for Club of the Funny and Inventive [Клуб весёлых и находчивых] – remains a national comedy institution in many states of the former Soviet Union. Kyrgyzstan, whose ...

Kyrgyzstan President Sooronbai Jeenbekov’s state visit to China kicked off on June 6 as a political scandal linked to a Chinese-owned company raged back home. Jeenbekov was due to meet with his ...

What Is China Really Doing in Greenland? Fact-Checking Trump’s Arctic Claims On July 2, Bishkek’s municipal initiative Tazalyk (“cleanliness” in Kyrgyz) installed 10 sets of recycling bins across ...