· August, 2009

Stories about Kyrgyzstan from August, 2009

Kyrgyzstan: Presidential Elections Are Over

  3 August 2009

Tolkun Umaraliev says the opposition candidates claim the election in Kyrgyzstan to be illegal. There is a confusion among media, both local and foreign, that candidates Nazaraliev and Atambaev have withdrawn their candidacies. However, both Nazaraliev and Atambaev have several times stated that according to the law on elections, they...

Kyrgyzstan: No more free music

  3 August 2009

Arawanski reports that the biggest torrent tracking website of free downloads in Kyrgyzstan has been sued by recording and producing companies for breach of copyright.