Kyrgyzstan promotes 'traditional names' amid new de-russification drive
Journalist-turned-politician Nurlanbek Turgunbekovich Shakiyev has been a household name in Kyrgyzstan for more than two decades. The speaker of parliament recently announced that he had legally changed his last name to Turgunbek uuly, abandoning his Russified patronymic and surname. "I did not come to this decision overnight. asiaplustj.info »