Ainura Asankojoeva is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service.
Hopes for more regional integration and less conflict in Central Asia in the future were dashed when Tajikistan and Turkmenistan refused to sign a new "friendship, neighborliness, and cooperation" agreement at a summit in Kyrgyzstan.
The regional director of Penal Reform International visited Tajikistan's Kirpichniy prison before it became the scene of a deadly violence.
As a court case reaches its climax, an Italian man is staging a one-man show about a Kyrgyz adoption scam that has caused his family years of psychological torment.
The United States wants Maksim Bakiev, the son of Kyrgyzstan's deposed president, extradited from Britain to face charges of insider stock trading. More details about the charges are emerging.
