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Askar Akayev
Askar Akayevich Akayev is a Kyrgyz former politician who served as President of Kyrgyzstan from 1990 until being overthrown in the March 2005 Tulip Revolution.
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science · President of Kyrgyzstan from 1990 to 2005 · economist · mathematician · politician · naturalist · also Askar Akayev, Askar Akayevich Akayev, Akayev
Born 10 November 1944 · Q489893
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2023· 1 entry
2017· 1 entry
The Diplomat: Askar Akayev
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2012· 1 entry
Was awarded with the Gold Kondratieff Medal by the International N
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2005· 3 entries
Fears Akayev would try staying in power by having a relative or ally be elected in his place led to the Tulip Revolution, culminating in Akayev fleeing to Moscow
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Campaign: 2005 election controversy.
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But the possibility of a dynastical succession had been raised
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2003· 2 entries
Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of the White Double Cross presented by Rudolf Schuster (2003).
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Won: Slovakia (2003).
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2002· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the Peking University (2002).
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2001· 1 entry
Won: Kazakhstan (2001).
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2000· 1 entry
Career landmark: President of Kyrgyzstan (2000–2005).
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1995· 1 entry
Career landmark: President of Kyrgyzstan (1995–2000).
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1991· 1 entry
Was offered the post of vice-president of the Soviet Union by President Mikhail Gorbachev, but refused
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1990· 2 entries
A year before the Fall of the Soviet Union, and he remained in his post after Kyrgyzstan became independent
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Career landmark: President of Kyrgyzstan (1990–1995).
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1984· 1 entry
Became a member of the Kyrgyz Academy of Sciences, rose to vice president of the academy in 1987 and then president of the academy in 1989
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1981· 1 entry
From the Moscow Institute of Engineering and Physics, having written his dissertation on holographic systems of storage and transformation of information
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1977· 1 entry
Where he became a senior professor at the Frunze Polytechnic Institute
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1970· 1 entry
Married Mayram Akayeva with whom he now has two sons and two daughters
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1967· 1 entry
With an honors degree in mathematics, engineering and computer science
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1944· 1 entry
Born 1944-11-10.
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