Almazbek Atambayev

Kyrgyzstan’s ex-leader Almazbek Atambayev was sentenced in absentia for corruption and organizing 2019 riots, amid ongoing...

On October 26, Kyrgyz authorities blocked the website of Radio Azattyk, the Kyrgyz branch of Radio Free Europe/Radio...

Renovating Kyrgyzstan’s top museum was supposed to take 18 months. Five years later, a fire has destroyed valuable exhibits,...

A group of Kyrgyz parliamentarians elected a former lawmaker as the country’s new prime minister on Saturday, days after his...

The Matraimov family has long used its questionable wealth to gain social and political influence in its native Kyrgyzstan....

For years, two powerful Central Asian families colluded to build a trading empire built on smuggling. Now, through relatives...

Kyrgyz lawmakers approved a report that was put together by a parliamentary commission which concluded that the government...

Almazbek Atambayev made a calculated bid for long-lasting power in Kyrgyzstan two years ago but now instead stands charged,...

As Kyrgyzstan's Parliament voted to strip former president Almazbek Atambayev’s immunity, he was busy barricading himself in...

A former key member of ex Kyrgyzstan President Almazbek Atambaev’s administration was arrested Sunday and is being detained,...

The President of Kyrgyzstan called on the country’s corrupted, dysfunctional judicial and national security agencies to...

A court in Bishkek found the head of a Kyrgyz opposition party and his co-defendant guilty of corruption and sentenced them...