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FILE - Local residents, Kyrgyz and Uzbeks, receive humanitarian aid in front of a statue of Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin on a central square in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh, Kyrgyzstan, ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Osh » Social: Kyrgyzstan Adds 456 Kindergartens and Quadruples Teacher Pay
Kyrgyzstan expanded preschool infrastructure by 456 kindergartens and raised teacher salaries nearly fourfold between 2021 and 2025, yet only 35% of children aged ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Osh » Social: In Kyrgyzstan’s Osh, Lenin statue goes 34 years after Soviet collapse
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 » Social: Kyrgyzstan’s Second City Osh Takes Down Lenin Statue
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 » Social: Booming Demand For Madrasahs Fuels Islamization Concerns In Kyrgyzstan
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 ...