Baktybek Abdrisaev was Kyrgyzstan's ambassador to the United States from 1997 to 2005 and is now a visiting professor of history and political science at Utah Valley University.
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Published in: oDRSpring: coming soon to Central Asia?All across the world, authoritarian governments are crashing, and new forms of democratic and term-limited regimes...
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Published in: oDRThe road to electoral perfection in KyrgyzstanKyrgyzstan’s October parliamentary elections revealed a number of teething problems in law and systems, write Alexey...
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Published in: oDRKyrgyzstan: reform starts with educationKyrgyzstan could be the first Central Asian parliamentary democracy. But the southern region has first to be...
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Published in: oDRKyrgyz elections: the birth of democracy?Recent parliamentary elections in Kyrgyzstan were declared free and fair, but Russia and its Central Asian...
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Published in: oDRKyrgyzstan’s referendum brings a flicker of hopeThe new constitution which the Kyrgyz people voted in on 27 June 2010 seeks to break the presidential pattern of...
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Published in: oDRKickstarting the Kyrgyz economyOn 8 April 2010 Kyrgyzstan experienced its second revolution in five years. The corrupt regime of President Bakiev...