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A Kyrgyz film set during a 1916 uprising against tsarist Russia will be shown in Kyrgyzstan following weeks of uncertainty about its fate.
Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambaev has canceled a trip to New York to attend the UN General Assembly after suffering chest pains during the flight, his press service said.
A well-known Kyrgyz public figure, Edil Baisalov, has said members of the 2010 interim government, including then-interim-President Roza Otunbaeva, are being persecuted.
A Kyrgyz man convicted of attempting to kill a prominent theologian has had his sentence reduced from life imprisonment to 20 years in prison.
A court in Kyrgyzstan has sentenced two local women to prison after convicting them of attempting to recruit a young woman in the ranks of the Islamic State (IS) extremist group in Syria.
Kyrgyzstan is to start the retrial of ethnic Uzbek activist Azimjon Askarov next month.
Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambaev has unveiled a memorial to victims of 1916 tsarist Russia's mass killing of Kyrgyz.
A court in Bishkek announced on August 29 that it has sentenced a controversial opposition figure to seven years in jail on terrorism-related charges.
The bodies of 14 migrant workers from Kyrgyzstan who were killed in a Moscow fire have been flown back to their country.
The trial of five members of Kyrgyzstan's opposition People's Parliament movement started on August 26.
Kyrgyz authorities say they have detained a Russian citizen on suspicion of recruiting Kyrgyz nationals to fight for the Islamic State (IS) extremist group in Iraq and Syria.
Kyrgyz authorities say negotiations are under way with officials in neighboring Uzbekistan to secure the release of four Kyrgyz nationals detained by Uzbek police in a disputed border area abutting the two Central Asian states.
Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambaev has ordered the government to review international border agreements signed by previous administrations amid recent tensions with neighboring countries.
Kyrgyz authorities say Uzbek border guards have entered disputed territory along their shared border in the southern region of Jalal-Abad.
Uzbekistan has temporarily closed its border with Kyrgyzstan ahead of festivities marking the 25th anniversary of the country's independence.
A Kyrgyz weightlifter has been stripped of his Olympic bronze medal after failing a drug test, while a Moldovan canoeist has also been suspended from the Olympics for doping, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) reports.
Kyrgyz officials in the southern region of Osh have detained a group of religious followers for illegally propagating Islamic teaching.
The Kyrgyz Embassy in Moscow has asked Russian law enforcement to thoroughly investigate the recent killing of a Kyrgyz citizen in the Russian capital.
A convoy of vehicles has started traveling through towns and villages in Kyrgyzstan in remembrance of the victims of a Kyrgyz and Kazakh revolt against imperial Russia that was violently suppressed by tsarist Russian forces in 1916.
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