(b. 1944), President of Kyrgyzstan. Askar Akaev was born in 1944 in the village of Kyzyl-Bairak, located in the Chon-Kemin region of Kyrgyzstan. He is not, by profession, a politician. Prior to holding the office of president of Kyrgyzstan he had never...

Askar Akayevich AkayevPresident (pronounced "AS-kar ah-KAH-ye-vitch ah-KAH-yeff") "Our main policy [is] to discover the interests of different social, national, and age groups and to create conditions for their fulfillment....

Askar Akayevich Akayev (Аскар Акаевич Акаев) (born 10 November 1944 in Kyzyl-Bairak, Kirghiz SSR) served as the President of Kyrgyzstan from 1990 until he was overthrown in March 2005 in the Tulip Revolution. As late as 1993 political...

Askar Akayev, the Kyrgyz president who fled his country last month after demonstrators stormed his offices, said he will resign on Monday. Akayev met for three hours Sunday with a delegation representing Kyrgyzstan's interim leadership and later told reporters that a protocol for...

Byline: Christopher Pala, THE WASHINGTON TIMES BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan - Pent-up popular resentment and a string of tactical mistakes by the government produced the stunning political upheaval in this poor Central Asian nation, culminating in former President Askar Akayev's formal resignation earlier this...

Kyrgyzstan's president on Wednesday called a national referendum on changing the constitution to elect the Parliament by party list _ a change that would hurt the country's many small parties and independent politicians.President Kurmanbek Bakiyev said the proposed change to be voted on in the...

Kyrgyzstan's referendum on constitutional change was marred by numerous violations, the main trans-Atlantic security and rights group and the U.S. Embassy said Tuesday.President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, who had initiated the Sunday vote, dissolved Parliament immediately after the results were announced Monday. On Tuesday, he signed the...