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Territory in west central Asia, ruled since 1991 by the Kyrgyz Respublikasy

Kyrgyzstan (Kyrgyz: Кыргызстан Kyrgyzstan; Russian: Киргизия or Кыргызстан), officially the Kyrgyz Republic (Kyrgyz: Кыргыз Республикасы, translit. Qırğız Respublikası; Russian: Кыргызская Республика, translit. Kyrgyzskaya Respublika) and also known as Kirghizia, is a country in Central Asia. Kyrgyzstan is a landlocked country with mountainous terrain. It is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west and southwest, Tajikistan to the southwest and China to the east. Its capital and largest city is Bishkek.

Geographical type: Territory

Latitude: 41° N — Longitude: 75° E

Area: 199,951 km²

ISO 3166-2 code: KG

Measures of Freedom

Human Freedom Index [PDF], The Human Freedom Index 2021
2019: 7.18, Rank: 81, Personal Freedom: 7.18, Economic Freedom: 7.17
Kyrgyzstan | Freedom House, Freedom in the World 2022
2016: Status: Partly Free, Aggregate Score: 38, Political Rights: 5, Civil Liberties: 5
In March 2015, Prime Minister Joomart Otorbayev and his government resigned after failing to negotiate a more advantageous agreement with the country's largest foreign investor, the Canadian mining firm Centerra Gold. The parliament confirmed Temir Sariyev as the new prime minister in May. He is a long-serving politician who is widely regarded as having close ties to Russia, which became even more significant as Kyrgyzstan officially joined the Russian-led Eurasian Economic Union in August.
Level of Economic Freedom, Economic Freedom of the World
2014: 7.16, Rank: 70

Articles

Democracy: The God That Failed, by Justin Raimondo, 12 Oct 2005
Discusses the actual results from the so-called Bush Doctrine involving "democratizing" the Middle East as well as several other countries which have a "democracy deficit"
Another of the color-coded "revolutions" bought and paid for by the U.S., Kyrgyzstan's, had a very similar result. ... the "Pink Revolution" that engulfed Kyrgyzstan earlier this year was a thuggish affair. Mobs took over government buildings, then indulged in an orgy of looting and destruction that extended to the capital city's business community. An election in which numerous irregularities occurred was held, and the victor – former Prime Minister Kurmanbek Bakiyev – immediately declared that this augured the crushing of the "counterrevolutionary" elements in the country.

The introductory paragraph uses material from the Wikipedia article "Kyrgyzstan" as of 2 Oct 2018, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.