The Spektator is Kyrgyzstan's only English language magazine

Magazine

Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...

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The magazine has been published since October 1, 2008, by Gwladys Street Publishing, a British owned company registered in Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan , officially the Kyrgyz Republic is one of the world's six independent Turkic states . Located in Central Asia, landlocked and mountainous, Kyrgyzstan is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the southwest and China to the east...

, and covers social and cultural issues on Kyrgyzstan and the wider Central Asian region. It also features a city guide to Bishkek

Bishkek

Bishkek , formerly Pishpek and Frunze, is the capital and the largest city of Kyrgyzstan.Bishkek is also the administrative centre of Chuy Province which surrounds the city, even though the city itself is not part of the province but rather a province-level unit of Kyrgyzstan.The name is thought to...

, the capital city of Kyrgyzstan.

Its target readership includes Kyrgyzstanis with a good command of English, students at universities, foreign companies established in Kyrgyzstan, as well as foreigners who are either living and working in Kyrgyzstan now or who are preparing to do so.