Janarbek Kubanychovich Akayev Жанарбек Кубанычович Акаев | |
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| Member of the Supreme Council of Kyrgyzstan | |
| Assumed office 4 October 2015 | |
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| Born | Janarbek Kubanychovich Akayev December 13, 1986 Kabylan-Kul, Osh Oblast, Kirgiz SSR, Soviet Union (now Kyrgyzstan) |
| Political party | Social Democratic Party of Kyrgyzstan (2015–2017) |
| Children | 1 |
Janarbek Kubanychovich Akayev (born 13 December 1986) is a Kyrgyz politician, and current member of the Supreme Council of Kyrgyzstan.
Akayev was born on 13 December 1986 in the village of Kabylan-Kul in Osh Oblast in the Kirgiz SSR, now Kyrgyzstan. In 2009 he graduated from Osh State University with a degree in journalism. [1] [2]
Akayev joined the Kyrgyz chapter of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Azattyk in February 2008, and between 2012 and 2013 was a correspondent for RFE/RL in Prague. [2] For six months between February and August 2015, he was Almazbek Atambayev's press secretary. [1] [3]
Akayev was elected as deputy for the Social Democratic Party of Kyrgyzstan in the 2015 parliamentary election, [1] until he was expelled from the party in March 2017. [2]
Akayev is married, and is the father to one child. [1]
The history of the Kyrgyz people and the land now called Kyrgyzstan goes back more than 3,000 years. Although geographically isolated by its mountainous location, it had an important role as part of the historical Silk Road trade route. In between periods of self-government it was ruled by Göktürks, the Uyghur Empire, and the Khitan people, before being conquered by the Mongols in the 13th century; subsequently it regained independence but was invaded by Kalmyks, Manchus and Uzbeks. In 1876 it became part of the Russian Empire, remaining in the USSR as the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic after the Russian Revolution. Following Mikhael Gorbachev's democratic reforms in the USSR, in 1990 pro-independence candidate Askar Akayev was elected president of the SSR. On 31 August 1991, Kyrgyzstan declared independence from Moscow, and a democratic government was subsequently established.
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