Kyrgyz politician and statesman Kurmanbek Bakiyev: biography, features of activities and interesting facts

Kurmanbek Bakiyev is one of the most famous political figures of Kyrgyzstan of our time. He could come to power thanks to one revolution, but he lost it due to another. Nevertheless, one of the brightest personalities of the recent history of Kyrgyzstan remains Bakiyev Kurmanbek Salievich. The biography of this person will be considered by us in this review.

Birth and childhood

Bakiyev Kurmanbek Salievich was born in August 1949 in the village of Masadan, which belonged to the Jalal-Abad region of the Kirghiz SSR, to the family of the chairman of the local collective farm Sali Bakiyev. In addition to Kurmanbek, the family had seven more sons.

The childhood of the future president has ended, hardly having begun. After school graduation, working days came.

Working career

Work Kurmanbek Bakiyev began in 1970 from the very bottom. He got a dispenser for one of the factories in the city of Kuibyshev (now Samara), and a year later a loader for a fish processing company. At this workplace, he lingered for two whole years.

The next two years (1974-1976) Kurmanbek Bakiyev gave his duty to the Motherland, serving in the ranks of the Soviet Army. After demobilization, he continued his working career, first working as a submachine gunner, and then as an energy engineer. In parallel with the work, he studied at the KPI Institute for a computer engineer.

After Kurmanbek Bakiyev graduated from the university in 1978, so, after graduating, he decided to return to his homeland, the Kirghiz SSR. He moved to the regional center of Jalal-Abad, where he immediately received the post of chief engineer at one of the local enterprises.

In 1985, Bakiyev went to increase, since he was appointed director of the plant in a small town of Kok-Zhangak.

First steps in politics

Being a member of the CPSU, Bakiyev Kurmanbek made the first steps in the political arena in the Soviet era. In 1990, he was appointed first secretary of the local city branch of the party.

After a while he becomes head of the Council of Deputies of the city of Kok-Zhangak. In 1991, he received the post of deputy head of the regional Jalal-Abad Soviet of Deputies. And a year later, after Kyrgyzstan joined the independent development path, Bakiyev Kurmanbek received the post of head of the Toguz-Toruz district administration.

1994 was marked by another major promotion. Bakiyev became deputy chairman of the State Property Fund. This was already a position of a completely different level.

Further political career

From this moment Bakiyev was at the top of the Kirghiz politicum.

In 1995 he received the post of head (akim) of the Jalal-Abad oblast administration. Two years later he was offered to take an equivalent post in the Chui regional administration. But this was only the middle of Bakiyev's political career. The most important achievements awaited him ahead.

Prime Minister

Bakiyev has established himself as a very good regional leader, therefore, the permanent president of Kyrgyzstan, from the very moment of his independence, Askar Akayev, offered him the post of head of government. So, in December 2000, the politician Kurmanbek Bakiyev became prime minister.

Since the first days in the new chair, the beginning prime minister has developed a stormy activity. Already at the beginning of 2001 he signed a secret agreement with the representatives of Uzbekistan on issues of delineation - a very painful problem since Soviet times.

But in early 2002, protests of the opposition began, which led Kurmanbek Bakiyev to resign in May. However, he did not intend to leave politics, and that same year he was elected a deputy to the Kyrgyz parliament.

In 2005, Kurmanbek Bakiyev was again appointed prime minister. The politician again returned to the highest echelons of power.

The Revolution of Tulips

At the same time, in the same year, 2005, opposition protest movements began against the incumbent President Askar Akayev, named the Tulip Revolution.

Protestants forced Akaev, who feared for his own life, to retire from the country. Prime Minister Bakiyev acted as acting president. He managed to agree with the opposition on holding democratic elections of the head of state.

Presidency

Kurmanbek Bakiyev managed to win a confident victory in the presidential elections. He enlisted the support of the opposition leader Kulov, who withdrew his candidacy in exchange for a promise of the post of prime minister.

After coming to power, Bakiyev really fulfilled his promise, and made Kulov prime minister, and allowed some other members of the opposition to work in the government of Kyrgyzstan.

But soon the confrontation between the president and the opposition flared up with renewed vigor. At the end of 2006, Bakiyev insisted on the resignation of the head of the Kyrgyz parliament, and early in the next year Kulov was dismissed from his post.

After these events Bakiyev initiated changes in the country's constitution, which should further expand the powers of the president. Thus, the post of prime minister was liquidated, and his functions were transferred to the president. In addition, the new constitution enshrined the provision according to which the deputy corps for 2/3 was to be formed from party representatives, and 1/3 from nominees in territorial districts.

In a referendum, the new constitution was supported by a majority vote. After that, Bakiyev dissolves the parliament, and in the early parliamentary elections his party "Ak-Zhol" convincingly wins. True, the results of the election were questioned by independent observers.

In 2009, the next presidential elections took place, in which Bakiyev received about 90% of the votes. But, again, these results were questioned by international observers.

A new revolution

Meanwhile, the opposition in Kyrgyzstan began to raise its head. In 2010, again, large demonstrations broke out against the incumbent authorities, which turned into an armed struggle. The protesters seized the presidential administration, and Bakiyev himself had to flee to his native Jalal-Abad province.

Although Bakiyev refused to resign, a provisional government headed by Roza Otumbaeva was formed in Bishkek. Kurmanbek Salievich issued an appeal in which he condemned the actions of the protesters and said that he was going to move the capital to the southern regions of the country where he enjoyed a certain popularity.

In the end, Bakiyev and representatives of the interim government managed to agree. Kurmanbek Salievich resigned in exchange for security guarantees to him and his family.

Life after retirement

Having combined his presidential powers in April 2010, Kurmanbek Bakiyev moved with his family to his permanent residence in Belarus, where the president of this country, Alexander Lukashenko, granted him political asylum. But a few days later Bakiev refused to recognize the previously signed resignation letter, saying that only he is a legitimate president.

In response, the interim government of Kyrgyzstan issued a decree to remove Bakiyev from power and filed a request to Belarus to extradite the former president, which was denied by the Belarusian authorities.

In 2013, Bakiyev was sentenced in absentia in Kyrgyzstan. He was sentenced, which includes a twenty-four-year prison sentence.

At the same time, Kurmanbek Bakiyev now lives with his family in the city of Minsk and, according to unconfirmed reports, has already managed to obtain Belarusian citizenship.

In Kyrgyzstan, in 2011, the interim government was replaced by the popularly elected president Almazbek Atambaev.

A family

With her second half, Tatyana Vasilievna, Kurmanbek Bakiyev met while still a student at the university in Samara. His wife was Russian by nationality. But the marriage, in the end, ended in divorce, although it was born of two sons - Marat and Maxim.

With his second wife, Kurmanbek Bakiyev officially did not register a relationship. But in this civil marriage, two children were born. It was with them and with the civil wife that Bakiyev moved to Belarus.

general characteristics

It is quite difficult to give an objective description to a person like Kurmanbek Bakiyev. On the one hand, he really worried about the state and tried to do everything for its prosperity. But, on the other hand, he could not cope with his task. In addition, there were some abuses of power on his part.

At the same time, it should be noted that his biography is not yet fully written. Kurmanbek Bakiyev still has the opportunity to say his last word. He continues to dream of returning to his native Kyrgyzstan, but as far as it's realistic, he can only show time.