BISHKEK (Reuters) -Kyrgyzstan's parliament has approved a bill that tightens state controls over media outlets, in what ...

Kyrgyzstan's parliament voted on Wednesday to tweak the design of the national flag after critics, including President Sadyr Japarov, said its central element looked like a sunflower which in the ...

Kyrgyzstan’s national flag was adopted on March 3, 1992, shortly after the country gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. A team of five people stood behind its design. At the flag’s ...

President Sadyr Japarov pleading allegiance at the National Kurultai on December 16. (Photo: Danil Usmanov) Kyrgyzstan’s president says one of the things stopping his country from flourishing is the ...

Kyrgyzstan’s new-look flag, approved by parliament in December, was raised on the capital’s main square on January 1. ... And the national anthem should have been played. (Only an enemy force sneaks ...

An initiative to tweak Kyrgyzstan’s flag steams ahead after lawmakers passed the first of three readings of a bill amid strong criticism. Top officials -- including President Sadyr Japarov ...

Kyrgyzstan's parliament voted on Wednesday to tweak the design of the national flag after critics, including President Sadyr Japarov, said its central element looked like a sunflower which in the ...