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Kyrgyzstan President Sadyr Zhaparov signed CBDC law giving the country’s central bank permission to launch the “digital som” in the future. With the launch of a state-backed stablecoin ...

Kyrgyzstan President Sadyr Zhaparov has signed a constitutional law authorizing the launch of a central bank digital currency pilot project while also giving the “digital som” — the national ...

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Kyrgyzstan President Sadyr Japarov took his country a step closer to issuing its own central bank digital currency Thursday, signing legislation that gives the "digital som" legal status.

Crowds gathered on the border between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, waiting to cross it for the first time since 2021. People could finally be reunited with their family members after President of ...

Women in Kyrgyzstan will now face fines for wearing the full-body niqab, under a January ban that has now received the backing of the country's top Islamic authority. Calling the niqab "alien to our ...

Kyrgyzstan, a landlocked and mountainous Central Asian country, has long teetered between aspirations of modernization and the realities of deeply entrenched corruption. Under President Sadyr Japarov, ...

Kyrgyzstan, known officially as the Kyrgyz Republic, is a landlocked nation situated in Central Asia and was once part of the Soviet Union. It is located within the Tian Shan and Pamir mountain ...

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 ...

The activist, Rita Karasartova, was detained for 48 hours in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, with a hearing about extending her detention set for April 16. “It seems that authorities ...

(Berlin, March 28, 2025) – Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan should place local people’s human rights at the center of the historic deal over their contested border, and provide justice to victims of ...