New Kyrgyz Leader Tells Silent Officials to Behave
To stony silence, Central Asia’s newest leader told civil servants in Kyrgyzstan on Tuesday to keep their hands out of the state till and their noses out of politics. “We are all servants of the people. We must all serve the people,” Kurmanbek Bakiyev said in his first meeting with government officials since coming to power in a coup last Thursday that forced President Askar Akayev into exile in Russia. Full Story