By empty (4/10/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)

For the past six years, IFES has been active in Kyrgyzstan in the election process as well as civil society and civic education. During both the February 2000 elections to the Jogorku Kenesh and the October 2000 presidential election, IFES conducted voter education programming, election observer training, media monitoring, and pollworker training which involved the production of training manuals for all polling station officials and conducting nationwide training sessions. IFES mobilized its own observer delegations for both elections, and added to its reach by recruiting and training a large number of college students (from its previous Summer Camp and university-election projects) as domestic observers.

By Karim Sayid (4/10/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)

The Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan movement, which emerged at the end of the last year is a very irritating eyesore for the government of Kazakhstan for at least two reasons. First, the opposition movement has been launched by top officials in the government, an unprecedented case in the history of the post-Soviet Kazakhstan. Second, being former government officials, the leaders of the Democratic Choice (DCK) knew the weakest spots of the rulers of the country very well.

By empty (4/10/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)

The tragic events, which happened in the southern Jalalabad province of Kyrgyzstan on March 17-18, provoked great concern and criticism of the Kyrgyz public as well as the international community and certainly of the Kyrgyz opposition.  As a response to these bloody events, the People’s Congress of Kyrgyzstan, which unites the four opposition parties Ata-Meken, El, Erkindik and Ar-Namys, held a meeting on March 23.  The participants of the meeting took five decisions, which if all are implemented, would bring radical changes to the political life of country.