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: 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 in ...

Lawmakers in Kyrgyzstan support modifying the country's flag to feature sun rays, aiming to boost the economy. The landlocked republic has faced political volatility since gaining independence in ...

On a global scale, a complete change of the national anthem without a radical change of the political regime is also exceptional Nurzhyguit Moldoyar, a 25-year-old composer and vocalist who has ...

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 ...