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 ...

When anthropology researcher Ashley McDermott was doing fieldwork in Kyrgyzstan a few years ago, she says many people voiced the same concern: Children were losing touch with their indigenous language ...

“When a language becomes accessible, it becomes visible. And when it becomes visible, it becomes part of international scholarship and global dialogue.” Language politics – and the politics of ...

On July 17, Kyrgyzstan’s president Sadyr Japarov signed the Constitutional Law on the State Language. The parliament adopted the law on May 31, with its chairman congratulating his colleagues with ...

Kyrgyzstan's parliament on Wednesday passed a law to strengthen the use of the Kyrgyz language over Russian, a move that comes with Moscow's influence across Central Asia waning amid its invasion of ...

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 ...

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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 ...