In Kyrgyzstan, where memories of last June’s ethnic violence are still raw, children’s futures risk being entangled in a flourishing nationalist impulse. As the country attempts to move beyond the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Compared to its neighbors in Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan enjoys press freedom. Yet biased, blackening and hypothetical information, which I call “low quality journalism,” prevails in Kyrgyzstan’s online ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rebecca King is the first student in University of Delaware history to receive both a Boren Award and Critical Language Scholarship. King’s immersive language study in Kyrgyzstan and Russia delivered ...