The Central Asian nation’s flag, adopted in 1992 after it gained independence from the Soviet Union, depicts a yellow sun - which doubles as the pinnacle of a traditional Kyrgyz yurt tent - with ...

Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov signed a bill amending the national flag on December 22, two days after lawmakers approved it in a final reading. The lawmakers have said the wavy yellow rays of a ...

Kyrgyz lawmakers approved a bill in final reading on December 20 amending Kyrgyzstan's national flag amid protests. The draft legislation, initiated by President Sadyr Japarov, says the wavy ...

BISHKEK, Nov 29 (Reuters) - 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 ...

In late September, legislators proposed changing elements of Kyrgyzstan’s flag, contending that the sun on the flag could be confused with a sunflower. The proposal garnered widespread criticism ...

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 ...

As 2024 dawned in Kyrgyzstan, a new flag fluttered over Bishkek. To the untrained eye, it may look mostly the same but the rays on the sun are a little straighter – even if the priorities of the ...

BISHKEK, Dec 20 (Bernama-Sputnik) -- The Kyrgyz Parliament on Wednesday approved a bill on changing the state flag in the second and third readings, a spokesperson for the Kyrgyz Parliament told ...

BISHKEK (Reuters) – 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 ...

Kyrgyzstan’s parliament voted on Wednesday to change the design of the national flag after critics, including President Sadyr Japarov, said its central element looked like a sunflower, which in the ...