Kyrgyzstan has enacted sweeping internet restrictions, including a ban on pornography and a state monopoly over international ...

Kyrgyzstan has implemented a ban on online pornography and brought internet traffic under state control, as part of new laws ...

Japarov's office said the ban on pornography is to "protect moral and ethical values" in mostly Muslim Kyrgyzstan, a ...

Kyrgyzstan's President Sadyr Japarov has persuaded parliament to push back the date of the next election by several months, in an indication he may be turning his thoughts towards running for a ...

President Sadyr Japarov of Kyrgyzstan has imprisoned Aftandil Sabyrbekov, his niece's fiancé, on drug charges, after Sabyrbekov arranged an "embarrassingly ostentatious" marriage proposal and ...

Now Kyrgyzstan is spiraling downward in a suppression of journalists and civil society under President Sadyr Japarov, who rose to power in 2021 and is trying to consolidate his control.

The deal, signed by Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov and his Tajik counterpart Emomali Rakhmon in Kyrgyzstan's capital Bishkek, also provided for the reopening of road, rail and air transport links ...

Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov says the government has no plans to invite former President Kurmanbek Bakiev to the country, but if he does try to come back he will be arrested given there is an ...

A confirmation of the same arrived on January 30 from Japarov’s spokesman, Askat Alagozov. “Considering that long-term international projects of strategic importance … are being planned and undertaken ...

It won its first seats in the Kyrgyz parliament in the October 2020 election that precipitated the collapse of the Sooronbay Jeenbekov government and the rise to power of Sadyr Japarov.

Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov’s public appearance with a Chinese-born businessman at the heart of a media investigation into contraband in Kyrgyzstan has raised questions about the government ...

The visit is back to being described as “upcoming,” a noncommittal phrase that underscores the ongoing concerns in Bishkek about dissenters ruining what the Sadyr Japarov government views as a ...