Bakiev’s New Choice
Kurmanbek Bakiev seems to want to tie together the north and the south through his latest Prime Minister nomination. Agriculture Minister Azim Isabekov is from the same restless region as Kulov—Chu—and, given his relative lack of a record, should stir up less controversy.
Kyrgyzstan’s vaguely European-style democracy soldiers on.
Update: You have to love the Internet. I mistakenly misspelled President Bakiev’s first name above—”Kurmabnek” instead of Kurmanbek. By doing so I was denying him altruism (”kurman” in Kyrgyz) and physical strength (”bek”). Honestly, I had no idea, but I was informed of this when a reader sent me an email explaining what had happened… in French. Awesome.
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Tags: Kyrgyzstan, Democracy.
Posted by Joshua Foust on January 26th, 2007
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