FILE PHOTO: Kyrgyzstan's Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers Akylbek Japarov attends Sber Business Breakfast at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) in Saint Petersburg, Russia June 17, 2022. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/File Photo
(Reuters) - Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov has dismissed the prime minister, Akylbek Japarov, Russia's RIA state news agency reported on Monday, citing an unidentified source in the presidential administration.
There was no further detail on why Japarov, who has headed the government since 2021, might have been dismissed and who would replace him.
Kyrgyzstan, a mountainous country in Central Asia and a former Soviet Republic, has gone through significant political and social instability since its independence in 1991.
It's economy depends heavily on remittances from millions of migrant labourers working in Russia, which make up a fifth of the country's gross domestic product (GDP), according to United Nations data.
(Reporting by Lidia Kelly in Melbourne; editing by Guy Faulconbridge)
