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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met in Vienna with Kyrgyz Foreign Minister Ruslan Kazabayev to discuss reconciliation efforts in the Central Asian country. Kyrgyzstan elected its first new government last year after an April 2010 coup led former...
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The Central Asian states -- Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan -- are important to Russia as buffers from the Islamic world and Asia and as energy and economic partners. Kazakhstan is already integrated with Russia and is...
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Outgoing Kyrgyz President Roza Otunbayeva (L), President-elect Almazbek Atambayev (C) and First Deputy Prime Minister Omurbek Babanov pray during the official opening of a memorial complex to victims of Kyrgyzstan's April 7, 2010 civil unrest, in the... View Photo »
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One of the sticky issues on the base's relations with Kyrgyzstan is the issue of the fuel contracts, which for years were carried out under shady middlemen companies that involved family members of Presidents Askar Akaev and Kurmanbek Bakiyev. After...
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He’s held news conferences there and has even, sources in Minsk tells us, been spotted eating ice cream in the street. Now, if local media are to be believed, he’s a Belorussian citizen, too. Citing Belorussian portal Tut.by, Russian media report that...
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Members of Akaev's winning coalition, perceiving they were not receiving their fair cut of the Manas wealth, began defecting and agitating for Akaev's overthrow. And of course, as has been well documented, when Kurmanbek Bakiyev took power in 2005, he...
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Visitors look at a memorial complex dedicated to victims of the April 7, 2010 civil unrest in Kyrgyzstan, during the complex's official opening in the village of Chon-Tash, some 12 km (7 miles) south of the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek November 16, 2011. More... View Photo »
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Kyrgyzstan — Kyrgyzstan’s Soviet-era electrical system has been pushed beyond its limits in recent weeks, as temperatures in this Central Asian nation have hit record lows of minus-13 degrees Fahrenheit. Officials have blamed the administration of...
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If they take enough money with them, they could set up a luxurious retirement community — an enhanced Belarussian version of Putin's Ozero dacha cooperative — and join former Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, who escaped corruption charges by fleeing...
About Kurmanbek Bakiyev
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Kurmanbek Saliyevich Bakiyev (Russian: Курманбек Салиевич Бакиев; born 1 August 1949) is the President of Kyrgyzstan. The Legislative Assembly of Kyrgyzstan of the Supreme Council of Kyrgyzstan appointed him acting President on 24 March 2005 following the ousting, during the Tulip Revolution, of President Askar Akayev. Full Article
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Visitors look at a memorial complex dedicated to victims of the April 7, 2010 civil unrest in Kyrgyzstan, during the complex's official opening in the village of Chon-Tash, some 12 km (7 miles) south of the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek November 16, 2011. More than 80 people were killed in...
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A relative grieves at a memorial complex to victims of the April 7, 2010 civil unrest in Kyrgyzstan, during the complex's official opening in the village of Chon-Tash, some 12 km (7 miles) south of the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek November 16, 2011. More than 80 people were killed in clashes...
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A Kyrgyz worker removes an election poster of presidential candidate Kubatbek Baibolov in Bishkek on November 1, 2011. Kyrgyzstan's moderate Prime Minister Almazbek Atambayev on October 31 won the presidency of the violence-scarred nation with a decisive election victory, but his rivals...
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Kyrgyzstan's Prime Minister and presidential candidate, the front-runner in Kyrgyzstan's presidential election, Almazbek Atambayev, gives a press conference in Bishkek on November 1, 2011. Kyrgyzstan's moderate prime minister on October 31 won the presidency of the violence-scarred...
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An elderly Kyrgyz woman casts her ballot 30 km outside Bishkek in Gornaya Mayevka, 16 Decemder 2007. Voters in the Central Asian state of Kyrgyzstan took to the polls in parliamentary elections that authorities say will bring stability but which the opposition says are being rigged. ...
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Kyrgyz President Roza Otunbayeva, right, and Prime Minister Almaz Atambayev pray during a memorial ceremony marking a one-year anniversary of bloody uprising in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Thursday, April 7, 2011. Memorial ceremonies were held Thursday across the Central Asian nation of...
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Kyrgyz political activists lower the national flags of Kyrgyzstan (2nd R and 3rd R) and of their parties and movements near the graves of people killed during the April 2010 political crisis in Kyrgyzstan at Ata-Beyit cemetery, some 20 km outside the capital Bishkek, on April 7, 2011,...
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Relatives of people killed during the April 2010 political crisis in Kyrgyzstan pray near their graves at Ata-Beyit cemetery, some 20 km outside the capital Bishkek, on April 7, 2011, during the commemorating ceremonies marking the anniversary of the events. Last year, the small former...
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Former high-ranking Kyrgyz officials, Prosecutor-General Nurlan Tursunkulov (L), Deputy Security Service Chief Nurlan Temirbayev (C), and Defense Minister Baktybek Kalyev (R), sit in the defendant's cage on March 18, 2011 during their trial in Bishkek. The three former top officials are...
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Visitors look at a memorial complex dedicated to victims of the April 7, 2010 civil unrest in Kyrgyzstan, during the complex's official opening in the village of Chon-Tash, some 12 km (7 miles) south of the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek November 16, 2011. More than 80 people were killed in...
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