BISHKEK, February 19. /TASS/. Kyrgyzstan’s President Sadyr Japarov opposes the idea of changing the status of the Russian language, he said in his article "The Allied Relations" published in the government’s newspaper Slovo Kyrgyzstana (The Word of Kyrgyzstan) on Friday.

"Russian is not only official but also the language of inter-ethnic communication in the country. It is well protected at the legislative level and its status is confirmed in our Constitution. As a president and guarantor of human and civil rights I’m strongly against any attempts of political manipulations in this issue," Japarov said.

In Kyrgyzstan, the Russian language has an official status and Kyrgyz is a state language.