AKIpress News Agency is the first independent
news agency
A news agency is an organization that gathers news reports and sells them to subscribing news organizations, such as newspapers, magazines and All-news radio, radio and News broadcasting, television Broadcasting, broadcasters. A news agency may ...
in the
Kyrgyz Republic
Kyrgyzstan,, pronounced or the Kyrgyz Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Asia. Kyrgyzstan is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the south, and the People's Republic of China to the east ...
. It is based in
Bishkek
Bishkek ( ky, Бишкек), ), formerly Pishpek and Frunze, is the capital and largest city of Kyrgyzstan. Bishkek is also the administrative centre of the Chüy Region. The region surrounds the city, although the city itself is not part of ...
, the capital city of the Kyrgyz
Republic. The agency is commercially focused: AKIpress earns money from paid access to archives and from the sale of advertising space on its websites. The online news website is in
Russian
Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including:
*Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries
*Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...
,
Kyrgyz Kyrgyz, Kirghiz or Kyrgyzstani may refer to:
* Someone or something related to Kyrgyzstan
*Kyrgyz people
*Kyrgyz national games
*Kyrgyz language
*Kyrgyz culture
*Kyrgyz cuisine
*Yenisei Kirghiz
*The Fuyü Gïrgïs language in Northeastern China
...
and
English
English usually refers to:
* English language
* English people
English may also refer to:
Peoples, culture, and language
* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
** English national ide ...
. The agency's websites publish daily between 500 and 700 news stories about the latest developments in Kyrgyzstan, including political, economic, social, scientific, cultural, diplomatic and sports news. Working mode is 24 hours a day.
History
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
Products
Over 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
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, entertainment and
classifieds
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.
Currently AKIpress has a number of subsidiary information sites, including the economic editio
Tazabek the regional news porta
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 servic
CentralAsia.mediawas established to cover news from the countries of the Central Asian region.
AKIpress also supports the youth entertainment websit
Limon.kgand video servic
BulBul.kg
Audience
In the autumn of 2016, the number of unique users exceeded 2 million per month for the first time, according to Google Analytics data.
The following year, AKIpress saw significant growth in its audience again. According to Google Analytics, over 27 million unique users visited AKIpress' websites in the 2020 and the total number of page views exceeded 436 million.
Over 38 million unique users visited AKIpress' websites in the 2022 and the total number of page views exceeded 237 million.
At the same time, the daily audience on weekdays is at least 300,000 people.
Social networks
AKIpress news may be followed in popular social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram.
As of January 1, 2023, the number of Facebook followers of AKIpress reached 149,000.
AKIpress channel in Telegram (t.me/akipress) has around 33,000 followers.
AKIpress channel on TikTok is followed by 76,000.
AKIpress account on Twitter has more than 7,000 followers.
AKIpress has the largest audience in social networks in Instagram (instagram.com/akipress) - as of January 1, 2023 there are 894 thousand followers. The most popular AKIpress posts were viewed more than 700,000 times.
Management
Alina Saginbayeva is the Director General of AKIpress News Agency.
References
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External links
Official site of AKIpress in RussianOfficial site of AKIpress in EnglishTazabek / Business AKIpressBarakelde in Kyrgyz
News agencies based in Kyrgyzstan