Kyrgyzstan launches contest for new national anthem

Kyrgyzstan launches contest for new national anthem

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Less Soviet, more inspiring: Kyrgyzstan launches public contest for new national anthem to reflect its nomadic heritage

BISHKEK, April 21 — 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 1992 after independence from the USSR but it is largely based on the Soviet-era one. The government says the anthem fails to accurately represent the young nation descending from the ancient history of the nomadic Kyrgyz people. …

Kyrgyzstan, which is struggling to rid itself of the legacy of the Soviet era, has announced a public composition competition to find a new national anthem.