Kyrgyzstan
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Society
Kyrgyzstan celebrates Komuz Day with great fanfare, impressive displays
Osh: Kyrgyzstan celebrated with great fanfare Komuz Day, a special cultural event that brought together around 500 komuzists to play Komuz, the Kyrgyz national three-stringed musical instrument. During the event organized by the Department of Culture of Osh city, the second largest city in Kyrgyzstan and located in the south…
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Entertainment
In Kyrgyzstan, fallen officer awarded honor medal posthumously
Bishkek: Kyrgyzstan President Sooronbay Jeenbekov has presented a posthumous medal to honor Colonel Usenbek Niyazbekov, a senior security officer who was killed during an operation to arrest the country’s former leader. Jeenbekov met with Niyazbekov’s mother Oktam Mamaeva, wife Nazira Bazarbayeva, brother Asanbek Niyazbekov, and son Timur Niyazbekov, national news…
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Society
Kyrgyzstan looking into way to repatriate Kyrgyz children from Iraq
Bishkek: Kyrgyzstan is looking into ways to address the issue of repatriating Kyrgyz children held in Iraq. An inter-ministerial working group on the repatriation and reintegration of minors in Iraq has been formed and the competent state entities are cooperating to return in Kyrgyzstan the minor children held in Iraqi…
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Politics
Kyrgyzstan plans to eliminate corruption practices, create better business practices
Bishkek: Kyrgyzstan is launching an ambitious action plan to reduce corruption practices and assert favorable conditions for doing business in and with the Central Asian country. The plan includes submitting a draft government decree “On Approval of the Action Plan to Reduce the Level of the Unobserved Sector of the…
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Kyrgyzstan celebrates Independence Day among tributes to heroes, stress on unity, cohesion
Bishkek: Kyrgyzstan on Saturday celebrated its Independence Day with great fanfare and among rich tributes to the country’s heroes and a strong emphasis on unity and cohesion.d “The modern generation has a great deal of happiness for living and working in an independent country that has gained sovereignty 28…
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Society
Kyrgyzstan looks into ways to address fake news, online disinformation
Bishkek: Ways to protect citizens from the negative influence of fake news are being discussed at a dedicated forum in Kyrgyzstan. “Society, falling under the influence of fake news, is changing significantly in the perception of information and there is a trend of growing number of Kyrgyz people who…
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Kyrgyzstan uses funds from fight against corruption to expand schools, build kindergartens
Bishkek: Some of the funds raised from the fight against corruption are being used to expand schools, accommodate more students and build kindergartens in several areas in Kyrgyzstan. “Due to internal migration, schools in Bishkek, Chui and Osh Oblasts are overloaded. That’s why we decided to direct the funds of…
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Culture
Exhibition dedicated to USSR art hosted in Kyrgyzstan
Bishkek: The Kyrgyz National Museum of Fine Arts will host an exhibition devoted to the Soviet fine arts of the 1930-1990s The exhibition, “In peace and harmony. The art of the USSR”, will be held on August 28-September 29, the press service of the museum named after named after…
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Becoming trilingual is kindergarten play in Kyrgyzstan
Bishkek: A three-language learning system has been introduced in 80 kindergartens in Kyrgyzstan in pilot mode, Under the system, children are immersed in Kyrgyz before lunch and in Russian after it, Nadira Jusupbekova, the Deputy Minister of Education and Science of Kyrgyzstan, said during a media conference, Kabar News Agency…
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Eight criminal cases initiated against Kyrgyzstan former president ‘s supporters
Bishkek: Eight criminal cases have been initiated against former President Almazbek Atambayev’s supporters, Otkurbek Dzhamshitov, the Prosecutor General of Kyrgyzstan, said. Addressing a media conference at Kabar News Agency, he noted that cases of mass riots, murder, hostage-taking, four cases of attempted murder and hooliganism have been initiated. An…
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