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Roza Otunbayeva
Roza Isakovna Otunbayeva is a Kyrgyzstani politician and diplomat who served as the President of Kyrgyzstan from 7 April 2010 until 1 December 2011, becoming the first female Central Asian head of state. She was sworn in on 3 July 2010, after acting as interim leader following the 2010 April Revolution, which led to the ousting of President Kurmanbek Bakiyev. She previously served as Minister of F…
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politics · President of Kyrgyzstan from 2010 to 2011 · politician · diplomat · ambassador · foreign minister · also Roza Otunbayeva, Roza Isakovna Otunbayeva, Otunbayeva
Born 23 August 1950 · Q485136
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2026· 1 entry
2018· 1 entry
Eurasianet: Kyrgyzstan’s former president, Roza Otunbayeva, discusses China, her successors, and regrets
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2017· 1 entry
Azimzhan Askarov was sentenced to life imprisonment by several Kyrgyz courts for the murder of policeman Maktybek Sulaimanov, who was burned alive, and participation in mass riots in 2010
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2016· 1 entry
The UN Human Rights Committee recognized that the state, during the investigation and trial of the criminal case against Azimzhan Askarov, violated Article 7, separately and in conjunction with Article 1 and Article 14,
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2012· 1 entry
The Eurasia Foundation (USA) awarded her with the 2012 Bill Maynes Award for demonstrating visionary leadership throughout Kyrgyzstan's constitutional transition and providing a lifelong example of public service
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2011· 4 entries
Trend News Agency: Roza Otunbayeva speaks for recalling candidacies of judges giving rise to disaffection
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Awarded International Women of Courage Award (2011).
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Trend News Agency: If Kyrgyz Parliament engages in political games then it will be dissolved - Roza Otunbayeva
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Otunbayeva received an International Women of Courage Award, which is presented annually by the United States Department of State to women around the world who have shown leadership, courage, resourcefulness, and the wil
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2010· 7 entries
Christian Science Monitor: Kyrgyz coup: Who is new leader Roza Otunbayeva?
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Christian Science Monitor: Protests topple Kyrgyz government, Roza Otunbayeva takes charge
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Reuters: FACTBOX-Who is Roza Otunbayeva?
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Career landmark: President of Kyrgyzstan (2010–2011).
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Career landmark: President of Kyrgyzstan (2010–2010).
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Confirmed that case against Askarov was politically motivated and directed by Otunbayeva
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Dozens of Uzbek community and religious leaders were arrested by the Kyrgyzstan government and accused of inciting ethnic violence, among them Azimzhan Askarov, who had been filming killings and arson attacks during the
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2009· 1 entry
Became the Leader of People's Front opposition
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2005· 1 entry
Career landmark: Minister for Foreign Affairs of Kyrgyzstan (2005–2005).
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1997· 1 entry
Career landmark: ambassador of Kyrgyzstan to the United Kingdom (1997–2002).
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1994· 1 entry
Career landmark: Minister for Foreign Affairs of Kyrgyzstan (1994–1997).
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1992· 1 entry
Career landmark: Minister for Foreign Affairs of Kyrgyzstan (1992–1992).
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1989· 1 entry
Was appointed as the Executive Secretary and later as the Chairwoman of the USSR UNESCO National Committee, and she also became member of the USSR Foreign Ministry's Board
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1986· 1 entry
Was appointed the Deputy to the Chairman of the Council of Ministers, and the same time the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic
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1981· 1 entry
Began her political career as the Communist Party's Second Secretary of the Lenin raion council (raikom) of Frunze (now Bishkek)
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1975· 1 entry
Became Candidate of Sciences after defending her dissertation, "Critique of falsification of Marxist-Leninist dialectic by the philosophers of Frankfurt school"
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1972· 1 entry
And went on to teach as Senior Teacher and then as Head of the Philosophy Department at Kyrgyz State National University for six years (1975–1981)
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1950· 1 entry
Born 1950-08-23.
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