Azimbek beknazarov biography sample

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Heard at Much House MK (Risk-Political Opinion) Kyrgyzstan CG [2004] UKIAT 00063
On 1 Apr 2004 (Risk- Political Opinion)
Written 1 Apr 2004


IMMIGRATION Demand TRIBUNAL

Date Freedom Notified

06 Apr 2004

Before

Mr S L Batiste (Vice-President)
Mr J Perkins (Vice-President)
Mr A Smith


Appellant
and

SECRETARY OF Kingdom FOR Rendering HOME DEPARTMENT
Respondent


DETERMINATION AND REASONS

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BACKGROUND: This year Kyrgyzstan marks the 100th anniversary of the revolt by the Kyrgyz people against their conscription into the imperial Russian army and the subsequent flight to China, a tragedy known in Kyrgyzstan by the word “Urkun,” meaning exodus.

Decades of Russian Tsarist policy directed at land acquisition in Central Asia precipitated the tragedy of 1916. The official plan was to use the land acquisitions to facilitate settlement of the Turkestan land by settlers – almost exclusively Slavic – from the European parts of the Russia Empire and Siberia, with the end goal being declaration of Russian autonomy. Local people, many of whom worked as hired labor and were already subject to taxes, refused to fulfill Tsar Nicholas II’s decree of July 25, 1916 conscripting 400,000 men from the ages of 19 to 43 into support battalions in the Tsar’s army. This decree sparked a mass uprising across Central Asia that was put down by force and sent many Kyrgyz, Kazakhs and Uzbeks fleeing to China to escape being killed at the hands of Russian soldiers and armed villagers.

The year 1916 was the culmination of a long period in which Central Asian peoples strove to establish statehood on territories populated by various Turkic ethnic groups. At the time, some in Russia even ack

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This resource discusses many place names in Kyrgyzstan. Geography is important to Kyrgyz politics, which are marked by a distinct north-south split. In the north, political power is centered in Bishkek. In the south, Osh is the main political center. Russian culture and language are also more common in the north and local cultures and languages dominate the south, including those of a large Uzbek minority. Kyrgyz politics are also marked by clan ties. See our article on Kyrgyzstan for a large map and more information.

We have divided these names into three categories – those currently in power, those very recently forced from power (there have been several large scandals leading up to the 2017 presidential elections), and figures still relevant from Kyrgyzstan’s recent political history.

I. Current Power

Almazbek Atambayev

Almazbek Sharshenovich Atambayev is the current President of Kyrgyzstan. He is ineligible for reelection in 2017 due to constitutionally imposed term limits.

Born in 1956 in a village in the northern Chui Oblast, he studied economics at the Moscow Institute of Management. From 1983 until 1987, he served in the Supreme Council of the Kyrgyz Soviet Socialist Republic.

With perestroika, he went into business, running for a time a large manufacturin