Kyrgyzstan to hold multiparty parliamentary elections on October 4 amid pandemic
By Nurzhan Kasmalieva Reporter, Kyrgyzstan BISHKEK: Sixteen political parties will run in the parliamentary elections in Kyrgyzstan slated for October 4. The Kyrgyz parliament has 120 seats with members elected for a five-year term by party-list proportional voting. According to Kyrgyz legislation, to win seats, parties must pass a national electoral threshold of 7%, and […]
Kyrgyzstan celebrates State Language Day
By Nurzhan Kasmalieva Chief of international affairs department, Kabar News Agency, Kyrgyzstan Bishkek: Kyrgyzstan celebrated the State Kyrgyz Language Day on September 23, an occasion marked annually on this day after the Supreme Council of the Kyrgyz SSR adopted a law on the state language on September 23, 1989, and the Kyrgyz language received the […]
On Children’s Day, Kyrgyzstan president hosts children, offers them laptops
BISHKEK: Orphans were offered laptops from Kyrgyzstan President Sooronbay Jeenbekov when he hosted them as his country marked International Children’s Day. According to his press service, Jeenbekov met Buburakhima Absatar kyzy, 15, Diana Amankozhoyeva, 11, Aktan Jumabekov, 12, Yimanbai Kushtarbekov, 12, and Erbol Mansurov, 13, were advised by the president to master modern digital skills, […]
Kyrgyzstan marks 75th anniversary of World War II victory
BISHKEK: Kyrgyzstan capital Bishkek has made a festive flower arrangement on the Victory Square of the city to mark the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. Bishkek Mayor’s Office reported that employees of the Bishkekzelenkhoz enterprise were behind the arrangement. Employees planted flowers in the form of a red star, figures […]
South Korea to allocate Kyrgyzstan $50,000 to combat coronavirus
BISHKEK: Korea will allocate Kyrgyzstan $50,000 to combat coronavirus, the South Korean embassy in Kyrgyzstan reported. “In connection with an increase in cases of coronavirus infection in the Kyrgyz Republic, the Korean Government, aware of the lack of medical equipment and the need to improve medical services to combat coronavirus in the Kyrgyz Republic, has […]
Kyrgyzstan adopts new measures in fight against coronavirus
Bishkek: Kyrgyzstan is shutting educational institutions for three weeks as the country shows determination to fight the spread of coronavirus. The decision to close the institutions will be implemented on March 16, the Security Council decided at its meeting, the press service of the Kyrgyz President reported. President Sooronbay Jeenbekov chaired the meeting attended by […]
Forged passports put Kyrgyzstan on U.S. immigration visa restriction list
Bishkek: The U.S. embassy in Kyrgyzstan said that the decision to impose “immigrant and diversity visa restrictions that suspend the entry of Kyrgyz immigrants” was to protect the security and welfare of the United States. However, the U.S. Government “continues to issue nonimmigrant visas for other purposes, such as tourism, business, students and exchanges,” the […]
Work on Kyrgyzstan-Azerbaijan Friendship Park launched
Bishkek: Kyrgyzstan and Azerbaijan are reinforcing their relations by building a park and a high school that would symbolize their increasing their friendship. The agreement on the construction was reached following talks between President Sooronbay Jeenbekov of Kyrgyzstan and President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan on the margins of the Summit of the Cooperation Council of […]
Kyrgyzstan to set up state entity for personal data protection
Bishkek: Kyrgyzstan is planning to set up early next year a state entity for the protection of personal data. Prime Minister Mukhammedkalyi Abylgaziev wants the entity to be formed by February 1, 2020 At the meeting at the Digital Command Centre of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kyrgyzstan, Abylgaziev stressed that the protection of […]
Kyrgyzstan to promote heritage internationally through UNESCO membership
Bishkek: Kyrgyzstan will use its election to the Executive Board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to disseminate internationally the heritage of Manas the Great and [internationally renowned Kyrgyz writer] Chyngyz Aitmatov, President Sooronbay Jeenbekov has said. Kyrgyzstan was last month elected for the first time in its history to the […]
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