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| | [ RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY ] |
 | | On 19 March, several leading opposition figures held a kurultai, or congress, in Osh to select a "people's governor" -- Anvar Artykov, a member of the Ata-Jurt opposition movement and an ethnic Uzbek (an important detail in Kyrgyzstan's south, which borders on Uzbekistan and is home to a large Uzbek population). |
 | | Fergana.ru, relying on reports from Osh from its own correspondent and Irina Gordienko from Russia's "Novaya gazeta," noted that angry crowds ransacked some government offices in the morning, but that by 3:00 p.m., local time, opposition leaders and police commanders who had gone over to the opposition side managed to restore some calm. |
 | | "We already control six of seven regions in Osh Province, five of eight regions in Jalal-Abad Province, one of five regions in Naryn Province, and three of four regions in Talas Province," she said. |
| www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/news/2005/03/mil-050323-rferl07.htm (884 words) |
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