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Tuesday, November 15, 2011

New Kyrgyz President To Take Office In December

Kyrgyzstan says president-elect Almazbek Atambayev will take office on Dec. 1 in a ceremony that will mark the first ever peaceful handover of power in the former Soviet republic’s two decades of independence.

The announcement on Tuesday sets the stage for an event authorities hope will spell the end of political turbulence that has scourged the Central Asian nation over the past year following the overthrow in April 2010 of former president Kurmanbek Bakiye

From: http://ping.fm/OkceB

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