Kyrgyzstan received military trucks and communications equipment from Russia on Wednesday, the first part of an aid package to reinforce its fragile borders ahead of the planned withdrawal of U.S. troops from nearby...

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — The operator of the largest gold mine in Kyrgyzstan says workers have gone on strike in a demand for payments to a state social fund. Centerra Gold says the strike at the Kumtor mine is illegal. The company produced 585,000 ounces of gold...

More than 1,000 prisoners in Kyrgyzstan have sewn their lips together, a grotesque act inmates describe as a protest over their dismal conditions, but which authorities blame on organized criminal gangs who resent attempts to break the power they wield in prisons. BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan...

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — Prosecutors in Kyrgyzstan say seven people face charges over the import of contaminated radioactive coal from Kazakhstan. The prosecutor general's office said Tuesday that health and customs officers allowed the coal to be sent to schools...

... Press that her daughter has refused to answer questions sought by attorneys, but a judge will determine whether to compel answers. The incident drew international attention and prompted new adoption agreements between the United States and Russia. Kyrgyzstan is allowing foreign adoptions to resume, issuing the first permit to a U.S.-based Christian organization. The Social Development Ministry said Monday that it chose Christian World Adoption after a rigorous selection process. Christian World...

... charged brawl that broke out on a moving train, Interfax reported. The injured passenger, an unemployed Moscow resident, was hospitalized in grave condition following the bloody altercation involving nine people — four of them immigrants from Kyrgyzstan — on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line. The fight began late Monday after the train left Baumanskaya station, then spilled onto the platform when it pulled into the next stop at Electrozavodskaya station. "After the train stopped, the...

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — The Kyrgyz government says it will reprimand officials responsible for allowing contaminated radioactive coal to be imported into the country from Kazakhstan. Emergency Services Minister Kubatbek Boronov said Thursday that 990 tons of tainted...

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — More than 400 Kyrgyz inmates have sewn their mouths shut as part of an ongoing protest over living conditions in jail, officials said Tuesday. Prisoners at two penitentiaries have closed their mouths in such a way that they can consume only...

... the ambassador was acting in an "open and cynical manner." McFaul also rejected Isayev's contention that he's an "expert" in Orange Revolutions, referring to popular upheavals in the former Soviet nations of Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan. "I'm an academic, a political scientist and a sociologist, not a professional revolutionary," said McFaul, a former professor at Stanford University and longstanding Russia specialist who was the top White House adviser on Russian...

... among them 9.7 million citizens of CIS countries. Of the legal immigrants, about 2.7 million were from Ukraine, about 2 million from Uzbekistan, less than 1.5 million from Kazakhstan and just less than 1 million from Tajikistan. Azerbaijan, Moldova, Kyrgyzstan and Armenia all had in the neighborhood of half a million each, according to a diagram presented by Romodanovsky. In 2011, migration officials registered almost 10 million foreigners and stateless individuals, almost 810,000 more than in 2010...

... Muhtorov said he planned to travel to Istanbul and would bring a “wedding gift,” the affidavit said. The affidavit said the FBI intercepted phone calls last summer between Muhtorov and his wife in which they argued about travel plans to Kyrgyzstan or Turkey. In a July phone call, Muhtorov told his young daughter that he would never see her again, but “if she was a good Muslim girl, he will see her in heaven,” the FBI said. Neighbors said Muhtorov worked as a truck driver...