updated Sat. February 3, 2024
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EurasiaNet
April 7, 2018
April 7 has steadily become one of the Kyrgyzstan's most somber and hallowed national holidays. It was on that day in 2010 that dozens of people were shot dead on a central Bishkek square as they mounted a ferocious protest against the rule of the much-reviled president of the time, Kurmanbek Bakiyev.
World Affairs (blog)
April 5, 2018
In 2010, his government backed an uprising in Kyrgyzstan that ousted President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, partly because Bakiyev improved his country's relations with the United States—an unforgivable sin for an upstart satrap to even attempt. Three years later, the new Russian-backed Kyrgyz parliamentÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
April 4, 2018
He also recommended that Jeenbekov convince his brother, Asylbek, to resign as a member of parliament and so avoid any hints of the clan politics that characterized and eventually helped lead to the downfall of Askar Akaev, the first Kyrgyz president, and his successor, Kurmanbek Bakiev. Atambaev saidÃâà...
Times of Central Asia
April 1, 2018
The SDPK leader warned the current President of repeating the mistakes of his predecessors, Askar Akayev and Kurmanbek Bakiyev, who established their family-clan dictate in the country. Fighters against corruption should not have friends like “Raym the Millionaire”, Atambayev added. The ex-presidentÃâà...
The Diplomat
March 16, 2018
It hit rock bottom after President Kurmanbek Bakiyev's re-election in summer 2009, when apart from a string of outlets being forced to close or refused registration, journalists critical of the government were subjected to harassment, intimidation, violent attacks — or worse. In one high profile case, oppositionÃâà...
The Diplomat
March 16, 2018
The 2009 statement — issued when then-Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev was waffling on whether to kick the Americans out or not — emphasized that while the NDN decreased U.S. “exposure to risks associated with our supply lines running through Pakistan” losing Manas “would be disappointingÃâà...
Eurasia Daily
March 14, 2018
According to the head of the organizing committee Aybek Musulmankulov, representatives of all power branches, as well as all social and political forces, including former presidents Askar Akayev and Kurmanbek Bakiyev were invited to attend the kurultai. In this regard, experts do not rule out anotherÃâà...
The Diplomat
March 6, 2018
For example, in February 2006 new Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev threatened to toss the Americans and their allies out if they didn't pay more to rent the base. He later walked the comment back, but in 2009, months before being booted from Bishkek, Bakiyev announced the base would be closed.
EurasiaNet
March 6, 2018
With the exception of the authoritarian phase ushered in by now-deposed President Kurmanbek Bakiyev between 2005 and 2010, the Jogorku Kenesh has historically served as an anarchic forum for horse-trading and grandstanding — a refreshing contrast with the seat-warming that mainly occurs in otherÃâà...
Transitions Online
March 6, 2018
Since the popular uprising in 2010 which evicted then-President Kurmanbek Bakiev from office, Kyrgyz nationalism has become more assertive, AFP reported in December. That same year, hundreds of ethnic Uzbeks died when communal violence broke out in southern Kyrgyzstan, where the UzbekÃâà...
Yahoo Singapore News
March 5, 2018
The initiative to create an unofficial holiday honouring the kalpak came about in 2011, less than a year after a popular uprising ejected authoritarian leader Kurmanbek Bakiyev from power. The revolt -- Kyrgyzstan's second in the space of five years -- fuelled a tide of populism in the second poorest formerÃâà...
The Diplomat
March 2, 2018
Tengiz Sydykov is the youngest son of former Kyrgyz Ambassador to the United States Zamira Sydykova. Sydykova served as ambassador to the United State from 2005 to 2010 during the presidency of Kurmanbek Bakiyev. Sydykova is editor-in-chief of one of Kyrgyzstan's oldest independent newspapers,Ãâà...
EurasiaNet
February 18, 2018
He first entered parliament on the back of a career in business in 2009, taking up a seat with the ruling Ak-Jol party, whose primary function was to advance the agenda of then-President Kurmanbek Bakiyev. After Bakiyev was overthrown in 2010, Asylbek uulu crept away from the political scene and spentÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
February 14, 2018
The compound used to belong to relatives of ex-President Kurmanbek Bakiev, who was ousted by protests in 2010. The state took over the property after Bakiev fled the country. After Alkanova's report was published in November, the Prosecutor-General's Office launched an investigation into the purchase,Ãâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
February 7, 2018
Salyanova was accused of illegally prolonging the license of a lawyer with links to then-President Kurmanbek Bakiev's son Maksim shortly before Bakiev's ouster in 2010. She was prosecutor-general at the time. Salyanova has maintained her innocence, saying the case against her is politically motivated.
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
December 21, 2017
Kostyrin is an associate of Maksim Bakiev -- a son of former President Kurmanbek Bakiev, who was ousted by protests and fled the country in 2010. Both are wanted in Kyrgyzstan and live abroad. A court in Bishkek on December 20 sentenced Kurmanbek Bakiev and his brother Janysh Bakiev, a formerÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
November 30, 2017
BISHKEK -- Activists rallied in front of the Kazakh Embassy in Bishkek on November 30, protesting over a documentary about ousted former Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiev -- and leaving boxes full of underwear outside. The protest came amid persistent tension between Kyrgyzstan and KazakhstanÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
March 7, 2017
In an interview with RFE/RL that was published on March 7, Bakiev claimed that dozens of people who were killed during antigovernment protests in April 2010 had not been shot by government forces. Bakiev claimed that the killings, which led to his ouster, were instead carried out by "armed groups.".
BBC News
February 12, 2013
A Kyrgyz court has sentenced former president Kurmanbek Bakiyev in absentia to 24 years in jail for abuse of power. The former president's brother Zhanysh, who led the security services, was given a life term for crimes including murder. The charges relate to the killing of top official, Meded Sadyrulov, whoÃâà...
BBC News
July 12, 2005
... said he was welcome. What happens to him now remains unclear. The Kyrgyz authorities have requested his extradition, seeking to put him on trial over the 7 April deaths. Belarus may well refuse to surrender him - but it seems clear that apart from Mr Lukashenko, Kurmanbek Bakiyev has few friends left.
