Batken Province (Kyrgyz: Баткен областы, Batken oblast) is a province (oblasty) of Kyrgyzstan. Its capital is Batken. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... In politics a capital (also called capital city or political capital — although the latter phrase has an alternative meaning based on an alternative meaning of capital) is the principal city or town associated with its government. ... Batken is a small town of about 12,000 in southwestern Kyrgyzstan, on the southern fringe of the Fergana Valley. ... This article explains the meaning of area as a physical quantity. ... ISO 3166-2 is the second part of the ISO 3166 standard. ... A governor is also a device that regulates the speed of a machine. ... Categories: Language stubs | Languages of China | Languages of Kyrgyzstan | Turkic languages ... This article is about political regions. ... An oblast (Russian, Ukrainian: о́бласть) is a subnational entity of Bulgaria, the Russian Federation, Ukraine, and the now-defunct Soviet Union, approximately equivalent to a province. ... Batken is a small town of about 12,000 in southwestern Kyrgyzstan, on the southern fringe of the Fergana Valley. ...
The Batken Media Resource Centre (BMRC) was launched in 2005 as a joint initiative between the public association Osh Media Resource Centre and the public fund Baar with the support of the OSCE Centre in Bishkek and the Osh Field Office.
Batkenprovince is a newly-established administrative unit and a relatively young region.
The Governor of Batkenprovince in south-western Kyrgyzstan, Sultan Aijigitov (left) and the Head of the OSCE Centre in Bishkek's Osh Field Office, Jerome Bouyjou, cut a ribbon to mark the opening of the Batken Media Resource Centre, 3 May 2005.
BATKEN, 23 Nov 2004 (IRIN) - A UN-sponsored radio station in Kyrgyzstan's remote southwestern Batkenprovince is working to encourage healthier lifestyles among the region’s youth.
Altynbek Syrymbetov, a teacher and former school principal in Batken, said that Radio Salam could be instrumental in filling gaps in the educational area to a certain extent, which emerge due to a lack of resources.
Shadybek Bakybekov, assistant governor of Batkenprovince, told IRIN that the station was a forum of opinions, which not only educated people, but encouraged social interaction.