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 from its ...

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 1991 ...

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — It’s blood red with a yellow sunburst in the center that’s covered by the top opening of a yurt - and it’s the focus of fierce debate in this Central Asian nation. Kyrgyzstan’s ...

BISHKEK -- To some, the new flag proposal resembled the spine-covered burs of the horse chestnut fruit while others saw the head of the mace weapon used by medieval combatants to bludgeon their foes ...

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — 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 ...

On December 20, Kyrgyzstan’s parliament adopted a bill on changing the national flag in the second and third readings. After the vote, one of the two initiators and the Speaker of the parliament, ...

Kyrgyzstan opened this New Year with a slightly new-look flag. The changes were not, in truth, that great. The colors and the sun-like figure at the center of the standard remained more or less the ...

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 ...

Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan) (AFP) – Lawmakers in tightly-controlled Kyrgyzstan on Wednesday backed a proposal to modify the country's flag so that it will feature sun rays, arguing the move would boost the ...

President Sadyr Japarov argued that the current design too closely resembled a sunflower - Copyright AFP/File Charly TRIBALLEAU President Sadyr Japarov argued that ...