Kyrgyzstan is getting rid of its Soviet-inspired national anthem and has launched an unprecedented public contest to find an ...

The mountainous Central Asian country adopted a new anthem in 1992 after independence from the USSR but it is largely ... have submitted entries for a new national anthem. Speaking during a ...

Kyrgyzstan is getting rid of its Soviet-inspired national anthem and has launched ... Japarov has said that the anthem's lyrics about the Kyrgyz people being "on the road to freedom" does not ...

On a global scale, a complete change of the national anthem without a ... people Kyrgyzstan is getting rid of its Soviet-inspired national anthem and has launched an unprecedented public contest ...

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 ...

who participates in a competition to create a new national anthem for Kyrgyzstan, attends an AFP interview in Bishkek on April 4 (AFP photo) BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — Kyrgyzstan is getting rid of its ...

Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan) (AFP) – Kyrgyzstan is getting rid of its Soviet-inspired national anthem and has ... Japarov has said that the anthem's lyrics about the Kyrgyz people being "on the road ...