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 ...

Around 300 people came onto the streets of Kyrgyzstan’s capital over the weekend in a public show of support for Palestine amid the ongoing aerial bombing campaign waged by Israel on the Gaza Strip.

Kyrgyzstan abolished capital punishment in 2007; President Japarov has suggested reinstating it as a way to confront horrific crimes against women and children. With violence against women and girls ...

On December 10, Kyrgyzstan’s Constitutional Court weighed in on the death penalty reinstatement debate that intensified following the brutal abduction, rape, and murder of yet another girl earlier ...