BREST, 1 July (BelTA) – Brest and Kyrgyzstan’s Karakol have become sister cities. This decision was formalized at a ceremony on 1 July, BelTA learned from the Brest City Executive Committee. A ...

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 ...

Election officials in Kyrgyzstan have over the past two weeks canceled results of last month’s local government elections in three major cities, including the capital, over alleged irregularities. The ...

Central Asian countries are accelerating plans to build new large-scale cities—including Asman, Alatau, New Tashkent and Arkadag—as ageing Soviet-era infrastructure, population pressures, and the hunt ...