Kyrgyzstan News » Osh News Kyrgyzstan » Osh » Culture: Kyrgyzstan’s Second City Osh Takes Down Lenin Statue
News channel or source: https://thediplomat.com/2025/06/kyrgyzstans-second-city-osh-takes-down-lenin-statue/
Published on: Monday 09 June 2025
Over the weekend, authorities in Kyrgyzstan’s second city, Osh, dismantled Central Asia’s tallest statue of Vladimir Lenin. Installed in 1975, the 75-foot statue’s removal, 34 years after the collapse ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Osh » Culture: In Kyrgyzstan’s Osh, Lenin statue goes 34 years after Soviet collapse
News channel or source: https://eurasianet.org/in-kyrgyzstans-osh-lenin-statue-goes-34-years-after-soviet-collapse
Published on: Tuesday 10 June 2025
For 50 years, a 23-meter, 7.5-ton statue of Vadimir Lenin swept his arm out over Kyrgyzstan’s second city of Osh from a perch above the central square. Then one morning, he disappeared. Residents of ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Osh » Culture: Booming Demand For Madrasahs Fuels Islamization Concerns In Kyrgyzstan
News channel or source: https://www.rferl.org/a/kyrgyzstan-islamic-education-girls/32932278.html
Published on: Saturday 04 May 2024
OSH, Kyrgyzstan -- At a spotless and modern-looking madrasah in Kyrgyzstan's southern Osh Province, two teenage girls studying the Koran admit that they know little about the Arabic text they have ...