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Kyrgyz independent news agency founded in 2000
AKIpress News Agency is the first independent news agency in the Kyrgyz Republic. It is based in Bishkek, the capital city of the Kyrgyz The agency is commercially-focussed: AKIpress earns money from paid access to archives and from the sale of advertising-space on its websites.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0
Last updated Oct 21, 2026.
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AKIpress News Agency is the first independent news agency in the Kyrgyz Republic. It is based in Bishkek, the capital city of the Kyrgyz2
The domain was registered on 19 June 2000. The site of the first ever independent news agency AKIpress began functioning after a testing-period.
In 2002, the agency opened the first independent press center in the Kyrgyz Republic.
AKIpress news agency marked its 10th anniversary in 2010.
From Wikipedia’s article on AKIpress News Agency, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4
Over the years, the news agency has developed 25 products in total, from news and analytical products to who is who among statesmen and companies, video portal, entertainment and classifieds.
Currently, AKIpress has a number of subsidiary information sites, including the economic edition Tazabek, the regional news portal Turmush, the news site "Reporter", the criminal news site "Svodka", as well as "Sport AKIpress", "Culture", "Healthcare", etc. The agency has a full English version - AKIpress news agency (English).
In 2007, with the participation of AKIpress, the Central Asian news service CentralAsia.media was established to cover news from the countries of the Central Asian region.
AKIpress also supports the youth entertainment website Limon.kg and video service BulBul.kg.
AKIpress news may be followed in popular social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram.
AKIpress has the largest audience in social networks in YouTube (youtube.com/akipressnews) - more than 1 380 000 followers.
AKIpress account on Instagram (instagram.com/akipress) has more than 1 million followers.
As of January 20, 2025, the number of Facebook followers of AKIpress reached 167,000.
AKIpress channel in Telegram (t.me/akipress) has around 40,000 followers.
AKIpress channel on TikTok is followed by 135,000.
AKIpress account on Twitter has more than 11,000 followers.
From Wikipedia’s article on AKIpress News Agency, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4
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