Topic: Askar Akayev
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Russian companies have shown a studied interest in the revival of the Tash-Kumyrskii semiconductor plant, which would allow the establishment of joint Kyrgyz-Russian production of silicon photovoltaic solar energy converters that are now widely used throughout the world
Kyrgyzstan to arm with solar in fight against blackouts Jan 22, 2009
We have an outdated fuel and energy complex, which operates mostly with obsolescent equipment
Kyrgyzstan to arm with solar in fight against blackouts Jan 22, 2009
We also decided the center will be transformed in due time into a base for training peacekeeping servicemen
Kyrgyzstan, NATO to train rescuers Oct 19, 2004
The 'Rose Revolution' in Georgia is a challenge to all young new states on the territory of the former Soviet Union
Kyrgyz leader blasts Georgia's revolution Sep 13, 2004
Sudden activation through such occurrences as a landslide, a flood and erosion on hillsides near waste dumps and the shortage of resources for repair, restoration and operation work have created a situation that is close to catastrophic
Central Asia faces radiation threat Nov 08, 2002
Askar Akayevich Akayev (Аскар Акаевич Акаев) (born 10 November 1944 in Kyzyl-Bairak, Kirghiz SSR) served as the President of Kyrgyzstan from 1990 until he was overthrown in March 2005 in the Tulip Revolution.
As late as 1993 political analysts saw Akayev as a "prodemocratic physicist."
Akayev was the youngest of five sons born into a family of collective farm workers, in the town of Kemin, 95 km east of Bishkek. He became a metalworker at a local factory in 1961. He subsequently moved to Leningrad, where he trained as a physicist and graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Precision Mechanics and Optics in 1967 with an honors degree in mathematics, engineering and computer science. He stayed at the institute until 1976, working as a senior researcher and teacher. In Leningrad he met and in 1970 married Mayram Akayeva with whom he now has two sons and two daughters. They returned to their native Kyrgyzstan in 1977, where he became a senior professor at the Frunze Polytechnic Institute. Some of his later cabinet members were former students and friends from his academic career.
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