At Japarov's request, lawmakers on Wednesday passed a bill to hold the next presidential vote on January 24, 2027, instead of ...

Kyrgyzstan's President Sadyr Japarov has influenced parliament to reschedule the next presidential election, sparking ...

Kyrgyzstan President Sadyr Japarov took his country a step closer to issuing its own central bank digital currency Thursday, ...

Kyrgyzstan is getting rid of its Soviet-inspired national anthem and has launched an unprecedented public contest to find an alternative.The mountainous Central Asian country adopted a new anthem in ...

BISHKEK (Reuters) - Kyrgyzstan's President Sadyr Japarov has persuaded parliament to push back the date of the next election by several months, in an indication he may be turning his thoughts ...

Contracts for state-sponsored developments in the Central Asian nation are notoriously opaque, and some have been tied to the ...

Azerbaijan Culture Minister Adil Karimli has met with his Kyrgyz counterpart Mirbek Mambataliyev in Bishkek to discuss ...

Kyrgyzstan’s unusual decision is part of a series of measures to overhaul state symbols taken by President Sadyr Japarov, who has been in power since 2021. Following a constitutional reform in 2021 ...