Another Ex-Soviet Country in Political Turmoil - Is NATO Behind This One Too?

Corruption is Everywhere

NATO is responsible for the Orange Revolution in Ukraine and, almost certainly for the attempted coup happening in Belarus.

These are ex-Soviet states that western countries promised (verbally) that they would not attempt to draw into NATO. Now, they are doing exactly that! And by so doing, they are pushing Russia into a corner. Western weapons in ex-soviet states would be equivalent to having Russian missiles in Cuba.

Why is NATO pushing Putin so non-sensically? Selling weapons is more important than peace; that has been obvious since Viet Nam. NATO, having a raison d'etre is also important to them, and they are willing to put the world at risk for it. NATO, (read Deep State) is the most real evil in this geopolitical world.

Jailbreak: Kyrgyz protesters free ex-president Atambayev,

imprisoned for corruption

5 Oct 2020 

Former Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev (June 27, 2019 file photo) was sprung from jail by protesters in Bishkek. ©  REUTERS/Vladimir Pirogov

Former president of Kyrgyzstan Almazbek Atambayev has been set free from the central jail in Bishkek, after protesters calling the parliamentary election fraudulent stormed the building as well as the government compound.

Atambayev was released around 4:30 am local time on Tuesday by protesters who had taken the jail, RIA Novosti reported from the Kyrgyz capital. Earlier, his son Kadyr was at the head of the crowd that stormed the White House, the compound that houses the presidential offices and the Kyrgyz parliament.

He was expected to join the crowd camping out in Bishkek’s Ala-Too Square, calling for the cancellation of the weekend's parliamentary election.

Demonstrators took to the streets of Bishkek on Monday, denouncing the election as fraudulent and accusing President Sooronbay Jeenbekov of vote-buying and intimidation. 

According to official results, only four parties out of 16 in the running had cleared the threshold to enter the country’s parliament. The highest number of votes went to Birimdik (Unity), the party of the president’s younger brother Asylbek.

Jeenbekov came to power in 2017 as Atambayev’s chosen successor, but quickly fell out with his mentor. Atambayev was arrested in August 2019 after a bloody raid on his estate in the village of Koi-Tash resulted in the death of one security officer. He was sentenced a year later to 11 years in prison for corruption, and was in jail pending trial on charges stemming from the raid.

Kyrgyzstan is a Central Asian state that gained independence in 1991, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Monday’s unrest is the third time since 2005 that protesters have demanded regime change in the streets. Its first president, Askar Akayev, was ousted in the ‘Tulip Revolution’ after almost 15 years in power. His successor Kurmanbek Bakiyev fled the country five years later.

Roza Otunbayeva, Kyrgyzstan’s first female president, took over from Bakiyev in April 2010, but was barred from running in the 2011 election.

It's a good bet that anyone in the old Soviet countries in a position of power could be jailed for corruption. The majority of times it is probably true and well deserved. Communism did nothing to eliminate corruption and probably made it worse, but there is little doubt that it pre-existed the godless society. 

Kyrgystan is 90% Muslim and about 7% Christian. Under Communism, Kyrgystan became a largely secular state and still is, although Islamic influence is growing as it always does.