Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
Kyrgyz President Bakiyev promoted his son to lead the Central Agency on Development, Investment, and Innovation, which controls both all FDIs and major national companies, thus consolidating his patronage network, Elina Galperin writes.
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
Aravanski reports that the Kyrgyz government sharply increased the prices for electricity and heating, making those barely affordable by most citizens.
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
Steven_Schwerbel reviews the developments on the opposition side of the Kyrgyzstan's political field, where the major opposition party blamed the president for violation of constitution and unlawful seizure of power through the change of constitution.
Central Asia (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
According to the Jamestown Foundation, on October 29, Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev promoted his son, Maksim Bakiyev, to lead the Central Agency on Development, Investment, and Innovation. This agency controls all foreign funds entering the country, along with control of major national hydroelectric and gold companies. Kurmanbek Bakiyev’s network of clients is growing stronger, to the [...]...
Letters in Bottles (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
I have another post up over at Registan.net -- talking about the possibilities of a new revolution in the offing in Kyrgyzstan . The post after the jump -- comments are welcome here as well as there. Something seems to be afoot in Kyrgyzstan — after another slaying of a journalist (the third this year) and the rearranging of the government that put the President’s son into a leading role,...
Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev signed a decree to abolish the National Guard, established by his predecessor Askar Akayev to provide security to a state leader, the Kyrgyz 24.kg news agency said.
kyrgyzstan.neweurasia.net (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
When ex-president Askar Akaev lost his president’s seat during the so-called “Tulip revolution” in March 2005, many thought that whoever takes the position of the president of Kyrgyzstan after Akaev would not ever repeat his ...
Institute for War & Peace Reporting (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Kyrgyz contributor selected as finalist in Asian journalism award. By Saule Mukhametrakhimova in London (30-Oct-09)
Registan.net (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Democracy in Kyrgyzstan – did it come too early and is it too expensive to afford? Since the ousting of Askar Akayev, one of the most democracy-friendly authoritarian rulers in Central Asia in so-called ‘Tulip Revolution’, the hope for democracy has been steadily declining despite all the initial euphoria. The most resent analysis of this failure [...]
Global Security (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
French and Spanish troops have left a Kyrgyz airbase formerly used by the U.S. military and now functioning as a center for Pentagon transits to Afghanistan, the center's spokesman said on Monday.
Panarmenian (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Armenian Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan handed his credentials to Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev.
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Aravanski reports that the Kyrgyzstan President announced extensive reforms in public administration system, including a massive reduction of the number of officials.
People Daily (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyevon Thursday issued a decree, approving the new cabinet submitted by the newly-appointed Prime Minister Daniyar Usenov. The security service and foreign ministry would now be under direct control of the presidency. Measures also included the dismissal of 40 percent of public sector workers, according to Kabar news agency. The new government structure was also approved...
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
The director of a circus arena says an ice-skating bear turned on its trainers, killing one and seriously wounding another.
Eurasianet (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
BY EVAN SPARLING Sasha, a 17 year-old ethnic Korean student in Bishkek, only knows one word in Korean: hello. She has lived all her life in the former Soviet Union, speaks Russian, and physically resembles a Kyrgyz so much that few can guess her true ethnicity. She does not even know when, exactly, her relatives migrated to the Soviet Union. But none of this stops her from emphatically declaring, "Of...
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