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Kyrgyzstan votes in key referendum after violence (AP)

June 27th, 2010

A young Kyrgyz couple walk in front of a billboard reading as 'Constitution: Change our selves - change our life! June 27, Referendum' in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Saturday, June 26, 2010.  The referendum on upcoming Sunday will ask the people of this country, which is on the brink of further ethnic strife, to approve a new constitution.   (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)AP - The people of violence-wracked Kyrgyzstan voted Sunday on a new constitution that the interim government hopes will legitimize the power it seized after a deadly uprising.


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Kyrgyzstan votes in key referendum (AP)

June 27th, 2010

AP - Polls opened in violence-wracked Kyrgyzstan for a referendum Sunday to choose a new constitution that the interim government hopes will legitimize its power until new parliamentary elections in…

Kyrgyz leaders take risky bet on referendum (AP)

June 26th, 2010

An Ethnic Uzbek reacts near a relative's grave as Kyrgyz policemen dig up graves for investigation, at Uzbek cemetery in Osh, southern Kyrgyzstan, Saturday, June 26, 2010. Investigators in Kyrgyzstan began exhuming bodies Saturday of people killed during clashes between ethnic Uzbeks and Kyrgyz last week that claimed hundreds of lives, risking creating a new wave of anger ahead of Sunday's crunch constitutional referendum. Deputy Interior Minster Bakyt Alynbayev said the bodies being exhumed were buried without proper procedure and without investigation into the cause of death. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)AP - Kyrgyzstan holds a referendum on a new constitution Sunday, a risky gamble amid deadly ethnic tensions but one the interim government hopes will legitimize their hold on power…

Former Kyrgyz defense minister arrested (AP)

April 15th, 2010

Supporters of the ousted President Kurmanbek Bakiyev hold posters at a rally in the centre of Jalalabad, April 13, 2010.  REUTERS/Denis SinyakovAP - A member of Kyrgyzstan’s interim government says that the nation’s former defense minister has been arrested.


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Kyrgyz leader must come to capital or face arrest (AP)

April 13th, 2010

Kyrgyzstan's deposed President Kurmanbek Bakiyev greets his supporters after a rally in the village of Teyit, in Jalal-Abad region in southern Kyrgyzstan, Monday, April 12, 2010. Bakiyev on Monday rallied supporters in his home village, testing his ability to mount resistance to the opposition forces that drove him out of the capital last week.(AP Photo/Sergei Grits)AP - A leader of the self-declared interim government that has claimed power in Kyrgyzstan said Tuesday the deposed president must return to the capital or face arrest by special…

In Kyrgyzstan, Warnings of a New Confrontation (Time.com)

April 12th, 2010

Time.com - Both the ousted president and the new, still wobbly interim government are flexing their muscles. But will the stand-off end in negotiations or more bloodshed?

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Kyrgyz president refuses to admit defeat or resign (AP)

April 8th, 2010

Protesters pose in Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev's cabinet room inside Kyrgyz government headquarters on central square in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Thursday, April 8, 2010. An opposition coalition in Kyrgyzstan said it has formed an interim government that will rule the turbulent Central Asian nation for six months. Opposition leader Roza Otunbayeva said Thursday she will head the government that dissolved the parliament and will take up legislative duties.(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)AP - The president of Kyrgyzstan insisted Thursday that he is not admitting defeat and he will not resign despite a bloody uprising and the formation of an interim government…

Kyrgyz president refuses to admit defeat (AP)

April 8th, 2010

Protesters pose in Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev's cabinet room inside Kyrgyz government headquarters on central square in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Thursday, April 8, 2010. An opposition coalition in Kyrgyzstan said it has formed an interim government that will rule the turbulent Central Asian nation for six months. Opposition leader Roza Otunbayeva said Thursday she will head the government that dissolved the parliament and will take up legislative duties.(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)AP - President Kurmanbek Bakiyev of Kyrgyzstan told a Russian radio station he is not admitting defeat despite a bloody uprising and the formation of an interim government.


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Kyrgyz opposition forms interim government (AP)

April 8th, 2010

Kyrgyz protesters waving the national flag, ride on a truck in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Wednesday, April 7, 2010. Police in Kyrgyzstan opened fire on thousands of angry protesters who tried to seize the main government building amid rioting in the capital as protests spread across the Central Asian nation. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)AP - An opposition coalition in Kyrgyzstan proclaimed an interim government Thursday in the wake of clashes that left dozens dead nationwide, and said it would rule for six months…