Police used tear gas and stun grenades Thursday to disperse thousands of opposition protesters who had demanded president’s resignation, The Associated Press reports.
Popularity: 2% [?]
April 20, 2007Mass protest action took place in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek with thousands of opposition activists calling on President Kurmanbek Bakiyev to resign, the Reuters news agency reports.
Popularity: 2% [?]
April 12, 2007Member of Kyrgyz parliament Azimbek Beknazarov suggested paying off the country’s foreign debt by planting opium.
Popularity: 14% [?]
March 7, 2007Citizen of Kyrgyzstan Alexander Ivanov, 42, was shot to death by a serviceman of the US Air Force. He fired two shots from a Beretta pistol in his chest, the Kyrgyz Interior Ministry told Itar-Tass on Thursday.
Popularity: 6% [?]
December 7, 2006A serviceman of the anti-terrorist coalition’s airbase deployed at Kyrgyzstan’s Manas International Airport shot dead an employee of a local fuel supply company.
Popularity: 2% [?]
The adoption of the American model for development has not created prosperity in Kyrgyzstan, the Central Asian republic’s state secretary was quoted by the RIA Novosti news agency as saying on Wednesday.
Popularity: 2% [?]
December 6, 2006Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiev has arrived in Minsk for talks with his Belarusian counterpart, Alexander Lukashenko, ahead of a CIS summit.
Popularity: 3% [?]
November 27, 2006Kyrgyz mobile operator Bitel has accused a subsidiary of Russia’s largest mobile operator Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) of falsifying documents, Bitel said in a press release, Vedomosti business daily reported Thursday.
Popularity: 2% [?]
November 23, 2006Eleven men suspected of a racially motivated attack on a Kyrgyz national this week have been detained near Moscow, RIA Novosti reports.
Popularity: 10% [?]
November 21, 2006A group of skinheads severely beat a Kyrgyz man on a commuter train outside Moscow, the latest in a wave of attacks in on dark-skinned foreigners in Russia.
Popularity: 5% [?]
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