News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Strengthening Personal Data Protection Across Kyrgyzstan: Over 1,000 Officials Trained with OSCE Support
Publishing date: 2 June 2025
The OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek, in close partnership with the State Agency for Personal Data Protection under the Cabinet of Ministers of the Kyrgyz Republic, has helped raise national awareness and improve institutional knowledge in the field of personal data protection. Over the past three
Kyrgyz youth succeed at the IV International Olympiad on Financial Security with OSCE support
Publishing date: 7 October 2024
From 8 to 13 September 2024, the Autumn Camp on financial security was organized by the State Financial Intelligence Service (SFIS) and the OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek, in the Issyk-Kul region. This five-day camp aimed to prepare the Kyrgyz Youth National Team for the IV International Olympiad on Financial Security, which concluded on 4 October 2024.
Kyrgyzstan approves final package of OSCE-supported recommendations for removing regulatory barriers to business
Publishing date: 4 December 2017
The final package of recommendations developed under the OSCE flagship project to strengthen regulatory governance in Kyrgyzstan was approved by the Kyrgyz Government’s Regulatory Reform Council on 1 December 2017.
Impact of corruption prevention measures at national and sectoral levels in focus at OSCE-supported expert meeting in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 26 May 2016
ISSYK-KUL, Kyrgyzstan, 26 May 2016 – A two-day regional expert seminar which started today gathers some 60 anti-corruption practitioners, experts and policy-makers from 12 countries in Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus and Central Asia to discuss effective preventive measures to combat corruption in the extractive industries and education sectors and to exchange best practices...
OSCE Centre in Bishkek supports training for law enforcement agencies on combatting customs offences and money laundering
Publishing date: 6 July 2015
A five-day anti-money laundering training course for law enforcement officers was organized by the OSCE Centre in Bishkek and the State Financial Intelligence Service under the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic from 29 June to 3 July 2015. The training course was supported by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)...
OSCE, Kyrgyz State Financial Intelligence Service train public and private sector representatives on combating money-laundering and financing of terrorism
Publishing date: 27 October 2014
BISHKEK, 27 October 2014 – Four training courses on combating money-laundering and the financing of terrorism, organized by the Kyrgyz State Financial Intelligence Service and the OSCE Centre in Bishkek, will take place from 27 to 30 October 2014 at the Training Centre of the State Financial Intelligence Service in Bishkek...
Kyrgyzstan removed from FATF non-co-operative countries list, with OSCE assistance
Publishing date: 3 July 2014
Kyrgyzstan has been removed from the ‘grey list’ of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and will no longer be subject to the FATF’s monitoring process under its ongoing global process of compliance with requirements on anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT). This was announced at the third FATF Plenary meeting held from 25 to 27 June 2014 in Paris. The OSCE Centre in Bishkek contributed to this through providing technical assistance to Kyrgyzstan...