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What is driving Kyrgyzstan's protest culture?
What is driving Kyrgyzstan's protest culture?(6/11/2013 10:18:49 PM) |
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Kyrgyzstan sets state of emergency to protect Centerra mine
By Olga Dzyubenko BISHKEK (Reuters) - Kyrgyzstan imposed a state of emergency on a northern district on Friday to protect Centerra Gold's Kumtor mine from protesters, but more unrest against the Canadian investor flared up in the country's south. Toronto-listed Centerra Gold's Kumtor mine, nestling in the Tien Shan mountains, is Kyrgyzstan's largest gold deposit and helps keep the Central Asian ...(5/31/2013 10:54:03 AM) |
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Kyrgyzstan rocked by protest at Canadian gold mine
BARSKOON, Kyrgyzstan (AP) — Hundreds of stone-throwing protesters besieged a Canadian gold mine in Kyrgyzstan on Friday, clashing violently with riot police and prompting the president to declare a state of emergency.(5/31/2013 12:39:56 PM) |
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Kyrgyzstan imposes state of emergency to protect Centerra mine
By Olga Dzyubenko BISHKEK (Reuters) - Kyrgyzstan's government imposed a state of emergency on a northern district on Friday to protect Centerra Gold's Kumtor mine from protesters. Police on Friday cleared away demonstators who had been blocking the road to Kumtor for days and arrested 92 people, Prime Minister Zhantoro Satybaldiyev told a news conference. A few hours later police used tear gas ...(5/31/2013 6:48:15 AM) |
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Kyrgyzstan declares emergency after bloody gold mine clashes
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (AFP) - Kyrgyzstan on Friday declared a state of emergency after bloody clashes between security forces and protestors over the arrests of dozens of demonstrators who cut off power to a Canadian-owned gold mine they want nationalised.(5/31/2013 4:45:55 PM) |
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Kyrgyzstan declares emergency after gold-mine clashes
Parts of Kyrgyzstan were under curfew after clashes between security forces and protesters who want a Canadian-owned gold mine nationalised led the president to declare a state of emergency.(6/1/2013 3:41:06 AM) |
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Clashes hit Canadian gold mine in Kyrgyzstan
BARSKOON, Kyrgyzstan (AP) — Hundreds of protesters attempted to storm a Canadian gold mine office in Kyrgyzstan on Friday, clashing violently with riot police and prompting the Central Asian nation to declare a state of emergency. Dozens of people were wounded.(5/31/2013 8:46:41 AM) |
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Kyrgyzstan: After Courtroom Violence, Judge Releases Opposition Lawmakers
A Bishkek court has acquitted and released three opposition leaders previously convicted for attempting to seize power violently. In March, Kamchybek Tashiev and two other lawmakers from the nationalist Ata-Jurt party received sentences of between six months and one year for leading unrest outside parliament last autumn. But the end to this saga did not come without more violence. Tashiev ...(6/18/2013 9:19:17 AM) |
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Kyrgyzstan: Bishkek Building Boom Sharpens Social Divisions
Copyright show: No Glance at the parking lot outside parliament, at the fleet of Lexus SUVs kitted out with chrome, and you might think Bishkek is the capital of a wealthy country. A block down Chui Avenue, a shiny new Range Rover is parked on the sidewalk. Police drive their own BMWs. Look a little closer, though, and the real Kyrgyzstan comes into focus. read more(6/6/2013 1:43:33 PM) |
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Kyrgyzstan Lifts State of Emergency Around Kumtor Gold Mine
Kyrgyzstan's President Almazbek Atambayev has lifted a state of emergency imposed last week in a district near the country's massive Kumtor gold mine, one of the nation's largest earners, following a blockade and riots near the site lasting several days. (6/3/2013 5:01:24 AM) |
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