| | ABC News: Kyrgyz vote frontrunner vows fair polls, stability (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | The elections were called to seek a successor to former President Askar Akayev, who ruled the poor, mountainous Central Asian nation for nearly 15 years but fled to Russia after violent protests against a flawed parliamentary poll. |
 | | Bakiyev, a 55-year-old former prime minister under Akayev who later joined the opposition and played a leading role in the protests, is the frontrunner in the race of six candidates. |
 | | Kyrgyzstan, which borders China, has been volatile since the March change of power, and Bakiyev's cabinet acknowledged last month it was not in full control of security after a crowd seized and briefly held the government headquarters. |
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