A new browser plugin developed by a creative agency in Kyrgyzstan automatically corrects usage of the colonial, Soviet-era “Kirghizia” to “Kyrgyzstan.” But experts say it won't stop ...

The two Kyrgyz men, both born in the 1920s in Soviet Kirghizia, went on to live on opposite sides of the Cold War. Their story — because it is, in essence, ...

Newfeature films from Georgia and Kirghizia are among 16 projectsbacked with a total of more than $3.15m (Euros 2.6m) by the Leipzig-basedregional film fund MDM in its latest round offunding.

The three main churches are in Biškek, Jalal-Abad and Talas. The latter, reconsecrated in 2019, was the first to be reopened after the end of the USSR as a proper church. Many local Catholics live far ...

In 1961, in Kirghizia, in Soviet Central Asia, 21 managers and senior officials were executed for "serious economic crimes", after they introduced capitalist production methods. Dina Newman reports.