OSCE Centre in Bishkek in pictures

Students at an OSCE-supported conference on regional security in Central Asia, Bishkek, 18 March 2010. (OSCE)

Young journalists at a training session on economic journalism supported by the OSCE Centre in Bishkek, Naryn Media Resource Centre, 25 August 2009. (Naryn KG/Jarkyn Ibraeva)

Young people engage in a pavement drawing competition on what should police look like, during the police open day organized by the OSCE centre in Bishkek, Batken City, 20 May 2009 (OSCE/Daniyar Matikanov)

A forensic lab officer from Bishkek City Police shows children fingerprinting techniques during a police open day at a school in Bishkek, 10 April 2009. (OSCE/Ruslan Izmaylov)

Participants attend an OSCE-organized youth conference in Kant City near Bishkek, 21 November 2008. The conference is part of a larger programme to increase opportunities for rural young people. (OSCE/Andrey Butsman)

Police cavalry meet the local community at the Police Open Day in Karakol, Issykkul Oblast, which was supported by the OSCE Centre in Bishkek's Police Reform Project, 6 October 2007. (OSCE)

Police officers and local community representatives at a confidence-building meeting in the Nooken District of Jalalabat, Kyrgyzstan, organized by the OSCE Centre in Bishkek's Osh Field Office, 5 August 2005. (OSCE)

Open Police Day in Bishkek, 4 June 2005, organized by the OSCE Police Assistance Programme. (OSCE/Marina Dmitrieva)

Open Police Day in Bishkek, 4 June 2005, organized by the OSCE Police Assistance Programme. (OSCE/Marina Dmitrieva)

Richard Monk, the OSCE's Senior Police Adviser until January 2006, being interviewed in Bishkek, 26 June 2004. (OSCE/Mikhail Evstafiev)

The OSCE Academy in Bishkek, June 2004. (OSCE/Mikhail Evstafiev)

"Boy", a sniffer dog used by mobile police groups to search for narcotics, with his owner in Bishkek, June 2004. Mobile teams were created and equipped with vehicles and drug-scenting dogs under the OSCE Police Assistance Programme for Kyrgyzstan. (OSCE/Mikhail Evstafiev)

Policemen stand under the Kyrgyzstan coat of arms during a graduation ceremony at the Bishkek Police Academy, 26 June, 2004. The OSCE's Strategic Police Matters Unit builds up police capacity in several countries of the former Soviet Union. (OSCE/Mikhail Evstafiev)

The OSCE Chairman's Personal Envoy for Central Asia, Martti Ahtisaari (left), welcomed during his visit to Kyrgyzstan, June 2004. (OSCE)

A Kyrgyz student reads an OSCE factsheet at the inauguration ceremony of the new OSCE Academy in Bishkek, December 2002. (OSCE/Rainer Hermann)

Members of the OSCE Osh Field Office in Kyrgyzstan travel to the site of a land dispute between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, Ak-Tatyr, November 2000. (OSCE)