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 ...

EADaily, June 5th, 2026. In Kyrgyzstan, an educational detective story has played out cooler than any Cambridge-Singapore ...

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 ...

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 ...

In Kyrgyzstan, a small country of roughly five million people, rumors play a significant role in forming opinions and forecasting the future. Although Kyrgyzstan's Russian language media is often ...

A demand from the Kyrgyz government for RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz language service to remove a video has escalated into a legal battle that could end Azattyk’s operations in the country altogether. In September ...

This issue is preventing our website from loading properly. Please review the following troubleshooting tips or contact us at [email protected]. Analysis: Russian Won’t Be Kyrgyzstan’s Lingua Franca ...

BISHKEK, October 4 (Itar-Tass) —— The demand for Russian-language education is growing in Kyrgyzstan, President Rosa Otunbayeva told pedagogues in Bishkek on Tuesday. At the same time, Kyrgyzstan has ...