Kyrgyzstan

Tightening the noose on independent media, the Kyrgyzstan government proposed on Monday a new procedure that would allow the...

Describing themselves as “activists” and “bloggers,” four people held a press conference in Kyrgyzstan on Tuesday calling...

A leading independent journalist says police planted drugs on him as retribution for his exposés of corruption. But that was...

Dozens of people protested on Sunday outside the interior ministry headquarters in Bishkek against the arrests of a poet and...

The former president — laying low since the country plunged into protest and violence in early January — hid banks, hotels,...

Imon International, Tajikistan’s most prominent microlender, was built over two decades to help women entrepreneurs. Its...

A well-connected operator, a successful businessman, and an enthusiastic interview subject: Vincenzo Trani is a colorful...

OCCRP’s Kyrgyzstan-based member center Kloop was among 13 organizations to win a Sigma Award on Wednesday, while OCCRP’s...

Not much has changed in Kyrgyzstan’s customs service since Matraimov’s firing and conviction. His successor, Zamirbek...

An open-source investigation suggests that the families of Raimbek Matraimov, Kyrgyzstan’s disgraced former deputy customs...

According to an associate, Kyrgyzstan’s former deputy customs chief had to raise money from friends and relatives to pay the...

Sergei Korolev, who was appointed to a key FSB position earlier this year by President Vladimir Putin, is connected to...