Following the U.S. Department of Defense’s recent decision to award controversial Mina Corporation with a $315 million contract to provide jet fuel to the U.S. Air Force base in Kyrgyzstan, the Kyrgyz government is urging the United States to suspend its dealings with the company.
Former president Kurmanbek Bakiyev has been formally charged as an accomplice in the 2002 Aksy shootings. Six people died and 28 people were wounded when Kyrgyz police opened fire on peaceful demonstrators in Kyrgyzstan’s Aksy region in May 2002.
Kyrgyz authorities halted efforts to secure former president Kurmanbek Bakiyev’s extradition from Belarus and decided to try him in absentia instead.
Igor Chudinov, former prime minister of Kyrgyzstan, was arrested in Bishkek yesterday. He was wanted on charges of embezzlement and abuse of power.
Following the ouster of president Askar Akayev in the 2005 Tulip Revolution, Bakiyev was appointed acting president and won the presidential election of 2005 and and 2009. He resigned and left the country following the violent riots in Bishkek in April 2010.
