Kyrgyzstan's culture ministry has proposed a new official status for Manaschy, the storytellers who recite the Epic of Manas, the country's founding epic.
Kyrgyzstan's culture ministry has proposed a new official status for Manaschy, the storytellers who recite the Epic of Manas, the country's founding epic.
Holders of the status would receive 62,000 soms. The Manas epic, one of the longest in the world, is central to Kyrgyz identity, and the ministry says the status would protect the tradition.
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