Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan) (AFP) – 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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kyrgyzstan has announced it will change its national anthem, saying the one it has is too Soviet. After Kyrgyzstan became ...

On October 25, the Kyrgyz parliament’s speaker Nurlanbek Shakiyev revealed government plans to change the national anthem. He explained that the anthem was adopted 33 years ago when the country had ...

Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov says he plans to revise the country's national anthem to adequately represent the "evolving" identity of the nation. Japarov said in an interview with the Kabar news ...

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 ...

Brass bellowed, cymbals crashed and a snare drum kept time. Then, a choir exploded into an up-tempo march. As the music blared over the loudspeakers of a hearing room, members of parliament looked at ...

On a global scale, a complete change of the national anthem without a radical change of the political regime is also exceptional - Copyright NASA/AFP Bill INGALLS On ...

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan, October 25. Kyrgyzstan plans to change its national anthem, said Nurlanbek Shakiev, the speaker of the Kyrgyz parliament (Jogorku Kenesh), at an event dedicated to the 140th ...

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 also ...