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	Kyrgyzstan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kyrgyzstan (Kyrgyz and Russian: Кыргызстан, variously transliterated, also Kirgizia or Kirghizia), officially the Kyrgyz Republic, is a country in Central Asia.
		Kyrgyzstan is a landlocked country in Central Asia, bordering Kazakhstan, China, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
		Kyrgyzstan is the only one of the five former Soviet republics in Central Asia to retain Russian as an official language.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kyrgyzstan (2993 words)

	ISN Security Watch - Russia plans military expansion in Kyrgyzstan
		The Russian military is set to expand its military presence in Kyrgyzstan later this year by increasing the number of Russian personnel at its airbase in Kant, near Bishkek.
		Russian military ways, thinking, and influence, which permeate all the post-Soviet legacy forces in the region to a greater or lesser extent, is extended through the Kant base.
		Kyrgyzstan is ensuring security, in his view, primarily through its participation in the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).
	www.isn.ethz.ch /news/sw/details.cfm?ID=15880 (905 words)

	Asia Times
		Topoev said that the Russian military presence in Kyrgyzstan was aimed at fostering peace and stability in the region, which he said was faced with the threat of Islamic extremism.
		Kyrgyzstan is unique in the region in that it is hosting both US and Russian bases on its territory.
		Malashenko said that Putin's visit to Kyrgyzstan and Rakhmonov's reception at the White House are indirectly connected and indicate that the process of the military reapportionment of Central Asia is under way, with the US and Russia as the main players.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Central_Asia/DL07Ag03.html (991 words)

	Russian Foreign Military Bases, Militarization of Space - CDI Russia Weekly #262
		At first glance, the statement contradicts the Kremlin's policy of closing military bases on foreign territory, the legacy of the Soviet Union's dominance in the socialist world.
		Russia's military presence only remains significant in Central Asia where it has the 201st motorised division stationed in Tajikistan (recently upgraded to the military base status) and the Kant airfield in Kyrgyzstan.
		In military terms, one could say that Ivanov's words of military bases and space expansion were a distracting maneuver.
	www.cdi.org /russia/262-7.cfm (647 words)

	kyrgyzstan.neweurasia.net » American Military base in Kyrgyzstan. Afterthoughts
		The authorship of this romantic definition of Kyrgyzstan belongs to the former president of the country Askar Akaev who was notorious for his skillful political maneuvering between the interests of the superpowers eager to claim Kyrgyzstan as the territory of personal influence.
		Thus, the status quo of the American military presence in Kyrgyzstan was maintained but lot of questions remained on the surface leaving many stakeholders puzzled.
		Thus politicians seem to be all set: bilateral relations have not being ruined, America is to stay in the region and Kyrgyzstan is to benefit from that financially and politically, preserving its status of a reliable partner of the West in the fight against terrorism.
	kyrgyzstan.neweurasia.net /?p=88 (1321 words)

	Kyrgyzstan - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Kyrgyzstan: Open letter from a coalition of non-governmental organizations to Askar Akayev, President of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan
		At the end of December, the Military Court in the southern city of Osh sentenced four senior law enforcement officials at the time of the Aksy events to prison terms ranging from two to three years.
		Kyrgyzstan continued to deport refugees to countries where they were at risk of serious human rights violations.
	web.amnesty.org /report2003/Kgz-summary-eng (861 words)

	Kyrgyzstan may host second Russian military base
		OSH, Kyrgyzstan Russia has discussed opening a second military base in Kyrgyzstan to help fend off terrorist threats in the volatile region, a senior Kyrgyz official said Tuesday.
		Russia’s air base in Kyrgyzstan was broadly seen as an effort to reassert the Kremlin’s influence in the strategic, resource-rich region.
		The borders of Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan converge in the densely populated Fergana Valley, where poverty runs deep and radical Islamic groups are active, creating a hotbed of instability.
	www.iht.com /articles/2005/05/24/asia/web.0524kyrgyz.php (255 words)

	America Has Lost Kyrgyzstan
		The outcome of elections in Kyrgyzstan not only has a decisive significance for the future of this country, but it also is an important event in the Great Game for influence in the whole of Central Asia.
		It is in the regions close to Kyrgyzstan that the ideas of Uygur separatism are still alive, nourished by the influences of Islamic fundamentalism.
		As a consequence, Kyrgyzstan is about to become a foothold for Russia's economic, military, and political expansion in the Central Asia.
	www.axisglobe.com /article.asp?article=229 (2643 words)

	Critical ally calling, with baggage - - MSNBC.com
		Kyrgyzstan was the only nation in the region to offer unlimited access for aircraft flying combat as well as humanitarian and search-and- rescue missions.
		A substantial portion of U.S. non-military aid to Kyrgyzstan is earmarked for building civil society, education and grassroots organizations.
		The U.S. ambassador to Kyrgyzstan was among the most vocal critics of a law restricting printing press equipment, which the government later repealed.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/3340566 (997 words)

	Central Asia/Russia
		On Thursday, Ivanov and Topoyev signed an agreement on the status of Russian military personnel in Kyrgyzstan, as well as a memorandum on the lease of military facilities used by the Russians.
		Russia and Kyrgyzstan have maintained close political and military ties, and Akayev has tended to support the Kremlin's policies in the region.
		Kyrgyzstan is a member of a number of post-Soviet groupings, notably the Collective Security Treaty (CST) and the so-called Eurasian Economic Commonwealth (EEC), which also includes Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan.
	www.atimes.com /c-asia/DF15Ag02.html (1063 words)

	NewsFromRussia.Com Kyrgyzstan and U.S. military to discuss financial terms of agreement on U.S. base
		Kyrgyzstan and the United States will review the financial terms of an agreement on the air base in the former Soviet republic that U.S.-led forces use for operations in Afghanistan, the Kyrgyz Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.
		Kyrgyzstan also wants to be compensated for possible future environmental damage caused by U.S. military aircraft, and Jekshenkulov told the Americans that U.S. military contractors need to pay taxes, the ministry said.
		Kyrgyzstan and the United States will review the financial terms of an agreement on the air base in the former Soviet republic that U.S.-led forces use for operations in Afghanistan, the Kyrgyz Foreign Ministry said Tuesday More details...
	newsfromrussia.com /world/2005/11/08/67221.html (2334 words)

	WILL POLITICAL CHANGES IN KYRGYZSTAN AFFECT U.S. MILITARY PRESENCE? - Eurasia Daily Monitor
		At the November 27-29 NATO summit in Riga, Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer mentioned the importance of the U.S. military base in Kyrgyzstan and its role in the anti-terrorist operations in Afghanistan.
		Kyrgyzstan’s recent endorsement of a new constitution that strips the president of his major powers has once again attracted international attention to this small, yet strategically important country.
		Kyrgyzstan is to a large extent bound by both organizations and numerous other bilateral and multilateral agreements with Russia and neighboring states.
	jamestown.org /edm/article.php?article_id=2371688 (907 words)

	Military Of Kyrgyzstan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
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	albawaba.com middle east news information::Russia may open additional military base in Kyrgyzstan
		Russia has discussed opening a second military base in Kyrgyzstan to help fend off "terrorist threats" in the volatile region, a senior Kyrgyz official said Tuesday.
		Anvar Artykov, governor of the Osh region in southern Kyrgyzstan, said the Kyrgyz government had yet to make a final decision on the issue.
		Kyrgyzstan hosts both U.S. and Russian military bases, located about 20 miles apart.
	www.albawaba.com /en/news/183981 (133 words)

	Online NewsHour: Report \| Kyrgyzstan Houses U.S. Base \| October 20, 2006 \| PBS
		KATYA KUMKOVA-WOLPERT, News 21 Project: This is Kyrgyzstan; not Kurdistan, the Iraqi province; not Kazakhstan, the oil-rich country to the north.
		Kyrgyzstan, a small and obscure former republic of the Soviet Union.
		One of them was of veterans who fought in the devastating Soviet invasion of Afghanistan; that war lasted most of the '80s and killed over a million people.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/military/july-dec06/kyrgyzstan_10-20.html (1673 words)

	Kyrgyzstan: Russian, U.S. Military Bases On Opposite Tracks
		"It's very important for the Russian military and the Russian government because it is the main basis for Russian power projection into Central Asia and for the attempt by Russia to organize the Collective Security Treaty Organization, which is Russia's attempt to create a military bloc in Central Asia,” Blank said.
		President Bakiev said in December that Kyrgyzstan would ask that it be increased a hundredfold.
		Essentially, not asking the Americans to leave the way the Uzbeks did, but essentially making it so difficult for the American military to be there that they decide to leave.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/news/2006/02/mil-060218-rferl02.htm (669 words)

	Will Kyrgyzstan's protests follow Ukraine's lead? \| csmonitor.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Although a revolution appears to be taking shape in Kyrgyzstan similar to the ones that erupted in Georgia in 2003 and Ukraine last December, experts suggest the violent street revolts rocking Kyrgyzstan could develop very differently from the democratic upheavals that brought peaceful change to the other ex-Soviet states.
		Kyrgyzstan, a mainly Muslim nation of 5 million, is deeply divided between its more developed, Kyrgyz-populated north and the impoverished and ethnically diverse south.
		Experts say the Kremlin is likely to view Kyrgyzstan's crisis as another blow to Russia's hegemony in the post-Soviet space and, without a purposeful dialogue between Moscow and Washington, the east-west chill could deepen.
	www.csmonitor.com /2005/0322/p07s02-wosc.html (948 words)

	The WE News Archives Military rivalry in Kyrgyzstan
		Nostalgia for the Soviet days had brought me here. Kyrgyzstan had invited Russia to station attack aircraft at an airbase on its territory - the first time Russia had opened a foreign military base since the end of the Soviet Union.
		Kyrgyzstan sits on the ancient trade routes from Europe to China. It has seen the wash of empires come and go: Mongols, Ottomans, Russians, and Soviets.
		Rumsfeld proclaimed US ties with Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to be in sound shape. For example, during a joint news conference in the Tajik capital Dushanbe, he characterized the United States and Tajikistan as "solid partners in the global struggle against extremism."
	www.thewe.cc /contents/more/archive/october2003/military_in_kyrgyzstan.htm (1689 words)

	US Installs Military Base in Kyrgyzstan and the Political Crisis
		The US has decided to set up a military base in Kyrgyzstan (Kirghizia) so as to carry on their air strikes against Afghanistan in the future, and to establish their presence after the war.
		They had also agreed that at all military bases were temporary and would be removed after the completion of the present military campaign against Afghanistan.
		Two factions in the parliament – Kyrgyzstan Communists and Communists of Kyrgyzstan have already made the president responsible for human rights violations and the human rights activists' death, but the president is keeping silent, in spite of numerous protests by the population and deputies and the hunger strike of more than 400 Kirghiz citizens.
	www.northstarcompass.org /nsc0203/kyrgyzstan.htm (625 words)

	Kyrgyzstan - Amnesty International
		Local non-governmental organizations estimated that Kyrgyzstan had returned around 50 Uighurs to China in recent years, despite the risks they faced there of serious human rights violations.
		There was concern that such agreements could also be used by Kyrgyzstan to restrict the rights of Uighur nationals to freedom of expression, association and assembly.
		On 19 February, Uzbek nationals Nodir Karimov (also known as Asadullo Abdullaev) and Ilkhom Izattulaiev were sentenced to death by the Military Court of Kyrgyzstan for involvement in violent crimes with a “religious extremist” basis, including a bomb attack on a market in Bishkek in December 2002.
	web.amnesty.org /report2005/kgz-summary-eng (485 words)

	Military cooperation with Kyrgyzstan on course - Turkish Daily News Aug 16, 2005
		Turkish military officials will continue to work with their Kyrgyz counterparts in the field of military cooperation, Turkish Defense Minister Vecdi Gönül said yesterday.
		Gönül said he went to Kyrgyzstan to attend the swearing-in ceremony of President Kurmanbek Bakiyev and emphasized that the country would achieve great accomplishments with Bakiyev in power.
		Asked about the possibility of opening bases in Kyrgyzstan, Gönül said the opening of Turkish military bases in this country was a domestic matter for Kyrgyzstan and that it was up to the Kyrgyz people to decide to allow foreign military bases.
	www.turkishdailynews.com.tr /article.php?enewsid=20869 (382 words)

	Russia's plans to boost its military presence in Kyrgyzstan spark a scandal in the Central Asian country - Ferghana.Ru ...
		"When we were in Kyrgyzstan, some of its leaders came up with the suggestions to increase Russian military presence on the territory of the republic and particularly in Osh environs," he said.
		As for the Defense Ministry's denials of existence of the plans to boost military presence in Central Asia, the source is convinced that we could not expect anything better from so closed a structure.
		According to Colonel Anatoly Tsyganok, Director of the Center of Military Forecasts, because of the lack of stability in the area within the Kokand - Ferghana - Namangan - Andizhan square the future counter-terrorism center could interact with the substantial army group of the Uzbek national army.
	enews.ferghana.ru /detail.php?id=760487835958.02,199,6580416 (1005 words)

	Russia prepares for military exercise in Kyrgyzstan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Russia's Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov held talks in Kyrgyzstan on Thursday amid preparations for a four-nation military exercise in the Central Asian country involving Russian special forces and aircraft, Kyrgyz media said.
		It follows a series of terror attacks in Kyrgyzstan's neighbour Uzbekistan and warnings of continued instability in nearby Afghanistan.
		Ivanov was speaking ahead of field exercises on Friday due to involve more than 2,000 personnel as well as aircraft from southern Russia and from a Russian airbase near Kyrgyzstan's capital Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan's defence ministry said earlier.
	www.spacewar.com /2004/040805135200.mq7bicy9.html (192 words)

	kyrgyzstan.neweurasia.net » Military
		The collision, luckily, hasn’t left any dead or injured, but became yet another troubling sign of the problematic operational coexistence of the civilian and military aviation in the Kyrgyz airport Manas.
		International experts are concerned about the national security of Kyrgyzstan in the light of recent attacks of Islamic fundamentalists in the south of the country.
		The first round of negotiations over the future of the American military base in the Kyrgyz airport Manas ended with no visible results.
	kyrgyzstan.neweurasia.net /?cat=12 (365 words)

	RIA Novosti - Russia - Russian minister hails military ties with Kyrgyzstan
		Sergei Ivanov, who is also deputy prime minister, is on a visit to the Central Asian state to attend a joint antiterrorism exercise in the south of the country.
		Russia and Kyrgyzstan are both members of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, a post-Soviet security grouping that also includes Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan.
		The main aim of the exercises is to plan and practice the coordination of combat units in a joint antiterrorism operation, and to improve the combat skills of military personnel during operations in mountainous areas, the Kyrgyz Defense Ministry said earlier.
	en.rian.ru /russia/20061004/54500540.html (566 words)

	Kyrgyzstan
		The militaries of all three have an ongoing relationship with the National Guard of a US state—Kazakhstan with Arizona, Kyrgyzstan with Montana, and Uzbekistan with Louisiana.
		The US claims it is supporting democracy in these nations, but experts say authoritarianism has been on the rise since 9/11.
		A new US military base in Uzbekistan currently holds about 1,000 US soldiers, but is being greatly enlarged.
	www.cooperativeresearch.org /entity.jsp?entity=kyrgyzstan (521 words)

	Kyrgyzstan- Air Force
		Because of expense and military doctrine, Kyrgyzstan has not developed its air capability; a large number of the MiG-21 interceptors that it borrowed from Russia were returned in 1993, although a number of former Soviet air bases remain available.
		The air defense forces have received aid from Russia, which has sent military advisory units to establish a defense system.
		Presently Kyrgyzstan has twenty-six SA-2 and SA-3 surface-to-air missiles in its air defense arsenal.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/centralasia/kyrgyz-airforce.htm (101 words)

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