Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov has signed into law a bill that obliges all officials to be able to speak Kyrgyz for official purposes. According to the bill, approved by lawmakers in May, the Kyrgyz ...

Kyrgyzstan and Russia signed an intergovernmental agreement on the construction of schools with education in the Russian language on the Kyrgyz territory in March 2023 BISHKEK, October 16. /TASS/. The ...

Civil servants who can't speak Kyrgyz will be fired from their jobs, officials in Bishkek warned as a law came into force making it compulsory for public-sector workers to be proficient in the state ...

Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov has signed a law requiring all trials to be recorded and makes the failure to do so grounds for appeal, a step forward for judicial transparency in the country. The ...

Major changes are afoot at one of Kyrgyzstan’s most storied media outlets. Leadership at the 24.kg news agency insist that the rearrangements are pure business, although they come just weeks after ...

A view of the Kürspay reservoir, close to the village of Kyzyl-Beyit in southern Kyrgyzstan. Credit: Anush Babajanyan Subscribe for ads-free reading When Kulchoro Ramanov took his Kyrgyz language exam ...

On the chilly morning of January 15, 2024, Mahinur Niyazova, then editor-in-chief of one of Kyrgyzstan’s most popular independent media outlets, 24.kg, was on her way to attend a parliament hearing ...