Askar Akayev, born on November 10, 1944, in the village of Kyzyl-Bairak, Kyrgyz SSR, Soviet Union, was the first President of Kyrgyzstan, serving from 1990 to 2005. Background and History: Akayev’s father was a teacher and his mother a collective farm worker. In 1967, he graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Precision Mechanics and Optics with a degree in computer science. He returned...
Kyrgyzstan’s Presidential Genesis: The First to Lead
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