OSH, Kyrgyzstan – Thousands of protesters, some armed with clubs and Molotov cocktails, overran Kyrgyzstan’s second-largest city Monday, forcing police to flee as the government lost control of the ...

Authorities in the second-largest city in Kyrgyzstan, Osh, have removed a towering statue of Vladimir Lenin thought to be the tallest of the revolutionary Soviet leader in Central Asia. The 23-meter ...

Over the weekend, authorities in Kyrgyzstan’s second city, Osh, dismantled Central Asia’s tallest statue of Vladimir Lenin. Installed in 1975, the 75-foot statue’s removal, 34 years after the collapse ...

Archaeologists have discovered a drowned medieval city beneath the waters of a salt lake in northeast Kyrgyzstan. The location was an important stop on one of the Silk Roads between China and the West ...

Kyrgyzstan’s capital is parched. Since the start of this month, residents of several neighborhoods of Bishkek have had their tap water severely rationed. Public baths and swimming pools have closed ...

Archaeologists from the Russian Academy of Sciences have announced the discovery of an Atlantis-like settlement lying beneath Kyrgyzstan’s Lake Issyk-Kul, one of the deepest lakes in the world, ...

With a large chunk of the population in the southern Kyrgyzstan city of Osh being represented by the ethnic Uzbek community, disseminating at least some advertising material in Uzbek ahead of this ...

OSH, Kyrgyzstan, Feb. 13 (UPI) -- Officials in a Kyrgyzstani city said they are banning Valentine's Day celebrations in schools because it "is a bad influence on children's morality." Kushtarbek ...

AUTHORITIES in the second-largest city in Kyrgyzstan, Osh, have removed a towering statue of Vladimir Lenin thought to be the tallest of the revolutionary Communist leader in central Asia. The 75-foot ...