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

The Kyrgyz were incorporated into first then Tsarist and then the Soviet empires and the country ... who have submitted entries for a new national anthem. Speaking during a rehearsal at the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...