News and press releases

Fifty representatives of rehabilitation centres, prisons’ administrations, international organizations and civil society took part in an OSCE-supported event to celebrate the seventh anniversary of "Atlantis" rehabilitation centres for drug and alcohol-addicted inmates on 21 April, 2011 at the Training Centre of the State Service of Execution of Punishment in Bishkek...

BISHKEK, 20 April 2011- Identifying ways to strengthen the independence of Kyrgyzstan’s judiciary is the focus of a meeting organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), the OSCE Centre in Bishkek and the Supreme Court of the Kyrgyz Republic today in Bishkek...

President of Kyrgyzstan Roza Otunbaeva paid a visit to the OSCE Academy in Bishkek on 15 April 2011. She held a lecture followed by a question-and-answer session with students and alumni, and met with the Academy management...

BISHKEK, 15 April 2011 –A series of OSCE-supported training seminars for precinct election commission (PEC) members ahead of Kyrgyzstan's 17 April local elections was completed today in three provinces of the country...

BISHKEK, 14 April 2011 – Special Representative of the UN Secretary General Miroslav Jenca, Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for Kyrgyzstan Herbert Salber, and EU Special Representative for Central Asia Pierre Morel made the following statement today...

OSH, Kyrgyzstan, 9 April 2011- The OSCE Centre in Bishkek officially launched today a public-private network of mediators in southern Kyrgyzstan...

BISHKEK, 8 April 2011 – Around 50 representatives of the Kyrgyz government’s press service and the media met today in Bishkek to discuss how to improve their communication...