Kyrgyzstan is considering changing its more than 30-year-old flag. “I support the idea,” said President Sadyr Japarov. “Our flag looks likes a sunflower; with this the country cannot rise ...

Kyrgyzstan’s new-look flag, approved by parliament in December, was raised on the capital’s main square on January 1. And then all hell broke loose. Within the same day, eagle-eyed internet sleuths ...

Kyrgyzstan’s old (left) and new (right) flag designs. Subscribe for ads-free reading. As 2024 dawned in Kyrgyzstan, a new flag fluttered over Bishkek.

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 ...

Kyrgyzstan: Flag-tinkering, another Japarov nation-building exercise Proponents of the change say the new, bolder flag will enable the country to be more independent. Ayzirek Imanaliyeva Dec 18, 2023 ...

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BISHKEK - Lawmakers in Kyrgyzstan on Dec 20 backed a proposal to modify the country’s flag so that it will feature sun rays, arguing the move would boost the economy.

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 ...

In his attempt to justify the change, Shakiyev explained that the wavy sun rays in the old flag made the tunduk (the central element of the flag and roof part of the Kyrgyz traditional yurt) look like ...

Lawmakers in tightly-controlled Kyrgyzstan on Wednesday backed a proposal to modify the country's flag so that it will feature sun rays, ... Kyrgyzstan backs new flag, says 'smiling' sun to aid ...

Kyrgyzstan backs new flag, says 'smiling' sun to aid growth. Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan) (AFP) – Lawmakers in tightly-controlled Kyrgyzstan on Wednesday backed a proposal to modify the country's flag ...