Marat Abdyrazakovich Sultanov is a Kyrgyz politician.
He was born in December 1960 in Frunze. [1]
Sultanov was the chairman of the central bank, National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic, from July 1994 to December 1998. [2] [1] He was appointed minister of economy and finance from January to July 1999. [1] In 2000 he was elected as a deputy to Supreme Council of Kyrgyzstan. [1]
Sultanov was the chairman of the Supreme Council from March 2006 [3] to October 2007.
He was again minister of economy and finance from January 2009 to April 2010. [1] In 2010 he was elected to the parliament as a member of Ata-Jurt Kyrgyzstan.
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. Turkic nomads, who trace their ancestry to many Turkic states such as the First and Second Turkic Khaganates, have inhabited the country throughout its history. In the 13th century, Kyrgyzstan was conquered by the Mongols; 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.
The politics of Kyrgyzstan, officially known as the Kyrgyz Republic, takes place in the framework of a presidential system representative democratic republic, whereby the President is head of state and the Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers is head of government. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and parliament. The Economist Intelligence Unit rated Kyrgyzstan an "authoritarian regime" in 2022.
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