Askar Akayev

Askar Akayev Akajewitsch ( Kyrgyz / Russian Аскар Акаевич Акаев; born November 10, 1944 in Kyzyl - Bajrak, Kyrgyz SSR) was 1990-1991 President of the Kyrgyz SSR 1991-2005 and the first president of independent Kyrgyzstan.

After studying Physics in Leningrad (today St. Petersburg ), he embarked on a career in science. In the late 1980s, he was appointed President of the Kyrgyz Academy of Sciences. He was a member of the CPSU Central Committee and was appointed in 1990 by the Supreme Soviet of the Kyrgyz SSR President of the Parliament.

He mediated between the various ethnic groups and led his country through regular discussions at the Round Table. On October 27, 1990, he was elected by Parliament as President of the Kyrgyz SSR.

After the August coup in Moscow in 1991 Akayev said his republic independent. In the first presidential election on October 12, 1991, as well as in the elections on December 24, 1995, he was confirmed in his office.

Kyrgyzstan was once a shining beacon of democracy among the CIS countries. However, the increasingly authoritarian style of government of the President turned the country into an autocracy. Although the Constitution provided for only two terms, the Constitutional Court decided in the summer of 1998, that the president could once again stand for election in 2000, as in 1993, which came into force the Constitution did not apply in his first election. The elections of 29 October 2000, then accompanied by massive irregularities.

Re- election fraud and other irregularities there were in the 2005 elections, according to international organizations. So a fair election campaign for the opposition was made ​​impossible by the steering and censorship of the media. The outcome of the election has led to ongoing massive unrest, among other demonstrations and occupations of public buildings. On March 22, Akayev was then a partial review ( regional ) election results known, but this was seen by the democratic opposition as a tactical move. On 24 March, Akayev was forced to flee to Kazakhstan after protesters had occupied several government buildings and Russia had announced that it would not intervene. From Kazakhstan, he fled to Moscow, where he officially announced his resignation as president of Kyrgyzstan on 4 April 2005.

Publications (selection )

• Holographic Memory. New York, NY: Allerton Press, 1997.
• Log - Periodic Oscillation Analysis Forecasts the Burst of the " Gold Bubble " in April - June 2011 / / Structure and Dynamics 4/3 (2010): 1-11.