Askar Akayev

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association with Bakiyev

  • TITLE: Kurmanbek Bakiyev (president of Kyrgyzstan)
    ...oblasty (province) and then moved to northern Kyrgyzstan, where he assumed the post of governor of Chui oblasty. In December 2000 Pres. Askar Akayev appointed Bakiyev to the post of prime minister. He was dismissed, however, on May 22, 2002; Bakiyev reportedly asked Akayev to allow him to return to his former position as governor of...

conflict with Otunbayeva

  • TITLE: Roza Otunbayeva (Kyrgyz politician)
    ...Union, Otunbayeva was named the country’s first ambassador to the United States. She held this post until 1994, when she was elevated again to foreign minister, this time in the government of Pres. Askar Akayev. Otunbayeva became ambassador to the United Kingdom in 1997. She later acted as a United Nations envoy to Georgia.

history of Kyrgyzstan

  • TITLE: Kyrgyzstan
    SECTION: Political process
    ...the People’s Democratic Party during the Soviet Union’s collapse and declined in influence after Kyrgyzstan, in contested elections in 1989, had gained its first democratically elected president, Askar Akayev, a former university professor and computer scientist. Informal political groups such as Ashar (“Solidarity”) have since helped to open up the political process further.
  • TITLE: Kyrgyzstan
    SECTION: History