Bishkek is guarded by the military, police and people's squads

12 October 2020

 

The situation in Kyrgyzstan's capital is fully controlled by servicemen, police officers and vigilantes, the city's police department reports on Monday.

 

"For the morning of October 12 in the capital the situation was calm and the night was quiet. The city of Bishkek is under the protection of armed forces, law-enforcement agencies and people's vigilantes that provide round-the-clock public security of citizens and protection of order", the department reports.


According to it, "traffic and citizens are moving normally". "All objects of entrepreneurship and state institutions continue to function in full. No facts of destabilization of the situation and possible provocations have been registered and revealed," the Department of Internal Affairs notes.


On October 4 parliamentary elections were held in Kirghizia. On the night of October 6 representatives of parties which didn't pass to the parliament after elections arranged mass disorders in Bishkek, captured buildings of state organizations, released ex-president Almazbek Atambayev and a number of other politicians from the detention center. The CEC invalidated the election results.


President Sooronbay Jeenbekov called on party leaders to put the political process back on track, signed decrees on the resignation of the government and the prime minister, and declared the state of emergency in the capital. A curfew has been introduced in Bishkek, which is valid from 09:00 pm to 05:00 am (18:00-02:00 Moscow time).

 

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