A new browser plugin developed by a creative agency in Kyrgyzstan automatically corrects usage of the colonial, Soviet-era “Kirghizia” to “Kyrgyzstan.” But experts say it won't stop Russian officials and pro-Kremlin media from using the old name.
Nineteen people are now on hunger strike in Kyrgyzstan, protesting their arrest in October for challenging a controversial border deal with Uzbekistan.
More than a dozen activists of the opposition movement Oyan, Qazaqstan! (Wake Up, Kazakhstan!) have been detained in the country’s largest city, Almaty, as the Central Asian nation marks the 31st anniversary of its independence.