Russian language kept as official language in draft of Constitution of Kyrgyzstan

AKIPRESS.COM - The suggestions were made to keep only Kyrgyz language as official in the draft of Constitution and to remove Russian language, constitutional conventin member Urmat Amanaliev, lawyer and Provost of the Kyrgyz National University, said.
This norm was kept. Russian language will remain the official language, he said.
Constitutional convention member Sadirdin Toraliev suggested on November 26 to abolish official language status for Russian.