15 July 1997 I’M OPEN TO COOPERATION WITH EVERY-one.” That was the quote attributed to Kyrgyz President Askar Akayev on the front page of Vechernii Bishkek on 2 January 1996. Akayev had reason to sound hopeful and generous at the start of the new year. Just one week earlier, he had become the third Central Asian leader in 1995 to […]
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