FEATURES OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE KYRGYZ REPUBLIC

Abstract

The study of this topic is of very wide interest, both from the scientific intelligentsia
and from the political elite. Civil society is considered a measure of the level of development. This
is especially true of the post-Soviet countries, which only appeared on the world map just over
twenty years ago. In the Soviet Union, the very concept of civil society was not used in relation to
Soviet society.
The newly independent states faced the need to develop their own conceptual foundations
for building a civil society that adequately meets the needs of their development in the changed
conditions. Taking into account the heterogeneity of the composition and the diversity of the political and socio-economic aspirations of the new states, the nature and dynamics of the processes
of building civil society developed in them in different ways. In a number of other countries, the
events in the post-Soviet period were characterized by acute drama, up to the outbreaks of the socalled color revolutions, which radically changed the political structure of society and the guidelines of socio-economic development in them. As time has shown, civil society plays an important
role in the development of the state.This article provides a scientific analysis of the role of the
institute of civil society in the Kyrgyz Republic.