BISHKEK, November 27. /ITAR-TASS/. Former Kyrgyz president Kurmanbek Bakiyev’s brother, Zhanybek Bakiyev, has been sentenced in absentia by a district court to life in prison, the press service ...

Kyrgyzstan’s new President Sooronbay Jeenbekov officially ... The two former presidents, Askar Akayev and Kurmanbek Bakiyev, were toppled during the revolutions and fled the country.

The people of Kyrgyzstan have elected a new president 18 months after overthrowing the authoritarian strongman, Kurmanbek Bakiyev. The situation there, however, remains tense. Kyrgyzstan is the ...

Then in 2010, widespread riots over corruption and the strongarm rule of Kyrgyzstan’s then-president, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, led to the collapse of the Central Asian country’s government.

(CNN)-- The ousted Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiev said Wednesday he still considers himself the country's president, even though he was forced to resign, according to news reports from Minsk ...