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KYRGYZSTAN - October 2013. A Kyrgyz trader makes his way to the Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan border. An ongoing project tracing...

William Daniels, Faded Tulips. In 2005 the Tulip Revolution in Kyrgyzstan brought hope for democracy. Motivated by social injustice, the Kyrgyz people overthrew President Askar Akayev’s authoritarian and corrupted regime and elected Kurmanbek Bakiyev, an opposition leader and former Prime Minister.