Nearly a third of lawmakers from the previous Kyrgyz parliament will retain their seats after Sunday’s early parliamentary elections, the ...

Kyrgyzstan is holding snap parliamentary elections amid intensifying pressure on opposition figures and independent media.

Voters have no shortage of candidates to pick from in Kyrgyzstan’s snap parliamentary elections on November 30. Just over 460 candidates are running for the 90-seat Jogorku Kenesh in 30 three-member ...

Kyrgyzstan votes in a snap parliamentary election on Sunday in which allies of President Sadyr Japarov are expected to win a resounding victory.

As was long expected, the Kyrgyz parliament voted unanimously September 25 to dissolve itself, setting up snap elections for later this fall almost exactly a year ahead of schedule. Parliament Speaker ...

President Sadyr Japarov aims to shore up power, with his allies set to win polls amid clampdown on media and opposition.

BISHKEK – A Kyrgyz parliamentary commission on June 22 decided to allow the launch of a probe against opposition lawmaker Adakhan Madumarov over his role in signing a Kyrgyz-Tajik border deal in 2009 ...

But on November 22, the Kyrgyz government turned up the heat on its own with the arrests of at least ten individuals, most ...

BISHKEK (Reuters) - Kyrgyzstan's President Sadyr Japarov has persuaded parliament to push back the date of the next election by several months, in an indication he may be turning his thoughts towards ...

Technically, 83 of 90 members of the Kyrgyz parliament, the Jogorku Kenesh, were registered at the February 22 meeting at which the body passed in its second reading the controversial “foreign ...

Lawmakers in Kyrgyzstan have, in a widely anticipated move, given their definitive backing to a bill that stands to cripple the work of nongovernmental organizations advocating for human rights and ...

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (AP) — Kyrgyzstan’s parliament backed a motion Wednesday to review the operating license of a company developing a major gold mine that accounts for 12 percent of the Central Asian ...