Citizens of Kyrgyzstan with deep respect relate to the Russian language, and incidents with discrimination of Russian-speaking citizens reflect the position of only the small part of the population of the republic. This was stated by Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of Kyrgyzstan Akylbek Zhaparov, reports Telegram-channel “Sputnik near abroad.”
According to him, the remaining Russian names of the streets and settlements, as well as the monuments of the leader of the October Revolution in Russia, Vladimir Lenin, Russian poets, public figures and soldiers of the Great Patriotic War were testified.
The deputy head of governments stressed that Russian is officially enshrined in the Constitution as a state language, which speaks almost every Kyrgyz. “Dear colleagues, we have February 23, March 8, May 1, we have on May 9 and we even have on November 7,” the Red Date, “said Zaparov.
he added that the cases of “domestic nationalism” should not be considered as systematic violations of the rights of the Russian-speaking population and use them as provocations for destabilizing relations of Kyrgyzstan and Russia.
On August 6, in one of the shopping and entertainment centers of Bishkek, a man, being in a state of intoxicated, demanded from a Russian-speaking employee, so that she spoke to him exclusively in Kyrgyz. After that, he began to insult the girl and threw her with a calculator.
previously became known that during the sports fees for judo in the Issyk-Kul region, the peers beat the nine-year-old Russian boy because of its national and religious affiliation. These incidents attracted the attention of the Russian authorities and the public.