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BISHKEK (TCA) — Kyrgyzstan’s Ata-Meken opposition party has claimed that the arrest of its leader Omurbek Tekebaev was aimed to suppress evidence that a cargo plane that crashed near Bishkek’s Manas airport on January 16 was carrying goods belonging to President Almazbek Atambayev, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reported. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — Omurbek Tekebaev, a Kyrgyz opposition politician and the leader of the Ata Meken party’s faction in the Kyrgyz Parliament, has been detained by authorities on corruption charges. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — The parliamentary faction of Respublika—Ata-Jurt party on February 14 nominated its leader Omurbek Babanov as its candidate in Kyrgyzstan’s presidential election scheduled for this fall. Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — Authorities in Kazakhstan should immediately release Zhanbolat Mamay, editor of the independent newspaper Sayasi kalam/Tribuna, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on February 13. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — On February 2, leaders of Kyrgyz opposition parties harshly criticized the Government at the parliamentary meeting that discussed results of Kyrgyzstan’s membership of the Eurasian Economic Union. Omurbek Tekebayev, leader of the Ata Meken opposition parliamentary faction, said the Government of Prime Minister Sooronbai Jeenbekov did nothing to improve the economic situation in the country and to create favorable conditions for local businesses to enter the EEU market. Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan's Anticorruption Bureau on February 2 said that fugitive Kazakh tycoon Mukhtar Ablyazov has been charged with the creation of an international criminal community and summoned to the bureau's headquarters in Astana by February 10, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reported. Continue reading
