For the second time in five years, political events in Kyrgyzstan shook the Central Asia region and caught the international community off-guard. In early April 2010, a few sporadic protests against increases in electricity tariffs quickly mushroomed into a series of anti-government demonstrations that toppled the regime of Kyrgyzstan’s President Kurmanbek Bakiyev. Just two months later, during the rule of a weak interim government, ethnic violence among Kyrgyz and Uzbek communities erupted in southern Kyrgyzstan on a scale not seen since the late Soviet period. […]
Memo #:
140
Series:
2
PDF:
PDF URL:
http://www.gwu.edu/~ieresgwu/assets/docs/ponars/pepm_140.pdf
Claire Tow Professor of Political Science and Director of the Harriman Institute for the Study of Russia, Eurasia and Eastern Europe
Affiliation
Barnard College, Columbia University
Expertise
International Relations of Eurasia, Central Asian Politics, Sovereignty, Governance
