Askar Akayevich Akayev is a Kyrgyz politician who served as President of Kyrgyzstan from 1990 until being overthrown in the March 2005 Tulip Revolution.
Akayev in 2016
Akayev, Nursultan Nazarbayev, Saparmurat Niyazov and Islam Karimov during the CIS meeting c. 1991
Visit of Askar Akayev, President of Kyrgyzstan, to the EC in 1994
Vladimir Putin with Askar Akayev at the Bishkek Heating and Electricity Station, October 2000
Kyrgyzstan, officially the Kyrgyz Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Asia, lying in the Tian Shan and Pamir mountain ranges. Bishkek is the capital and largest city of the country. Kyrgyzstan is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the south, and China to the east and southeast. Ethnic Kyrgyz make up the majority of the country's 7 million people, followed by significant minorities of Uzbeks and Russians.
Tian Shan Mountains in East Kyrgyzstan
Statue of Manas in Bishkek
Petroglyphs of local sheep, Sary Kamysh
Silk road caravansarai utilized during the Islamic Golden Age