Askar Akayevich Akayev served as the President of Kyrgyzstan from 1990 until he was overthrown in March 2005 in the Tulip Revolution.
As late as 1993 political analysts saw Akayev as a "prodemocratic physicist."
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“Over the past decade, Afghanistan has been the principal source of international terrorism, religious extremism, international drug trafficking and organized crime in this region,”
Askar Akayev
“It becomes a very important component in establishing regional security and stability,”
“There has been a constitutional coup in the republic. A small group of irresponsible plotters and carpet-baggers in a criminal way used force to capture power. An uncontrolled and destructive wave of anarchy and violence overwhelmed the capital and other cities,”
“develop internal resources and transform them into internal investments.”