Former deputy of the Parliament of Kyrgyzstan Gulshat Asylbaeva has been appointed Deputy Minister of Economy and Commerce. The official confirmation is expected to be made today, September 24. Sources informed 24.kg news agency.
Gulshat Asylbaeva has experience in the economic sphere. In 1982, she graduated from the Moscow Institute of Soviet Trade with a degree in economics. She began her career at Asia JSC, where she worked until 1995. She then held the positions of chief specialist in the Ministry of Tourism and Sports (1995-1997), general director of Shumkar JSC (1997-2006), and General Director of Kyrgyz Konyagy LLC (2006-2015).
She has worked as a member of the Parliament from Onuguu-Progress faction since 2015. In September 2023, she was appointed head of the Antimonopoly Regulation Service under the Ministry of Economy and Commerce.
Gulshat Asylbaeva is known for the fact that, as a member of Parliament, she initiated the so-called law on fakes (officially called «On protection from the dissemination of inaccurate (false) information»), which was supposed to combat fakes on social media. Not a single fake account has been blocked under it yet. However, in practice, the law is mainly used to restrict independent media.
President Sadyr Japarov signed the Law «On Protection from Inaccurate (False) Information» on August 23, 2021.
