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 ...

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 ...

Controversial language legislation in Kyrgyzstan threatens to stir inter-ethnic tension in the Central Asian nation. Leaders of the country's Uzbek and Russian communities say the law denies them ...

Bishkek is gradually distancing itself from the "Russian world". The authorities of Kyrgyzstan demanded from TV channels to bring the share of broadcasting in the national language to 60% in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...