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Clinton met with Kyrgz President Askar Akayev, who has been a champion of market reform.
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"We are facing some problems with democracy and human rights, " says Foreign Minister Askar Aitmatov.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Rebasing -- and Reequipping -- for Transformation
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Mohamed Askar of THE Supreme Council of the Armed Forces said protesters were capturing and wounding soldiers.
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Mr Askar's company, Hookah Brothers, is now shifting 4, 000-5, 000 units a month to clients in 47 American states.
ECONOMIST: Happy hookahs
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Something similar happened in both Ukraine and Kirgizstan, where Leonid Kuchma and Askar Akaev turned to Moscow when the going got tough.
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The affair has undermined the authority of President Askar Akaev's government.
ECONOMIST: Warnings for two governments
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U.S. officials note that Kyrgyz President Askar Akayev keeps a bust of Thomas Jefferson in his office and quotes him frequently when talking to foreigners.
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Askar Akaev may have been the least repressive despot in a bad neighbourhood, but he, his family and his cronies had monopolised power, and the state's meagre resources, for far too long.
ECONOMIST: Revolution reaches the steppe
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The threat of Islamism there has been used to justify ever greater repression by presidents such as Nursultan Nazarbaev of Kazakhstan and Askar Akaev of Kirgizstan, who are squelching dissent as they entrench themselves in power.
ECONOMIST: Civil liberties
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Kyrgyzstan was once seen as the most stable and liberal of the ex-Soviet Central Asian republics but it descended into turmoil in 2005 when a popular revolt ejected President Askar Akayev and brought Kurmanbek Bakiyev to power.
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As Kirgizstan's president, Askar Akaev (once optimistically hailed as Central Asia's Thomas Jefferson because of his democratic words), becomes increasingly despotic, local people grumble that the Americans have boosted his power by buying fuel from businesses close to the seat of power.
ECONOMIST: Will intervention foster democracy?
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They should ask Murad Askar.
ECONOMIST: Happy hookahs