It began as a moment of nastiness between a sales assistant and a shopper at a games park in Kyrgyzstan’s capital. It has now escalated into an international incident. The brief episode was captured ...

On this, the 20th, anniversary of the adoption of Kyrgyz as the state language, government language policies remain a source of contention in Kyrgyzstan. For members of ethnic minority groups, the ...

Compared to its neighbors in Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan enjoys press freedom. Yet biased, blackening and hypothetical information, which I call “low quality journalism,” prevails in Kyrgyzstan’s online ...

One of the most sensitive issues in Kyrgyzstan is educational language policy, president for transitional period Roza Otunbayeva stated today at the regional conference "Promotion of minorities' ...

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 ...

BISHKEK -- Russia has suspended the import of dairy products from Kyrgyzstan after the chairman of Kyrgyzstan’s National Commission for the State Language and Language Policies, Kanybek Osmonaliev, ...

Tolkun writes about the new language regulations for broadcast mass media in Kyrgyzstan and its possible effects on Uzbek language media of the country. Global Voices stands out as one of the earliest ...

Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov has defended a new law obliging all officials to be able to speak Kyrgyz for official purposes after Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov publicly called the ...

Russian is not only official but also the language of inter-ethnic communication in the country, the president said BISHKEK, February 19. /TASS/. Kyrgyzstan’s President Sadyr Japarov opposes the idea ...

Kyrgyzstan's Prime Minister Almazbek Atambayev, who is running for the country's president, on Friday successfully passed a language exam, Itar-Tass reported. "I was very nervous before this exam ...