PARLIAMENTARISM IN KYRGYZSTAN: SPECIFIC FEATURES, PROBLEMS, AND ACHIEVEMENTS
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Kyrgyzstan, parliamentarism, the Jogorku Kenesh, kurultai, zhyyn, the Supreme Soviet, political parties, parliamentary factions.Abstract
The authors analyze the far from simple development of Kyrgyz parliamentarism, the republic’s experience of building the parliament (the Jogorku Kenesh) and its objective problems and short comings. The article is based on the personal experience of one of the authors who served as a deputy and speaker of one of the convocations and on the authors’ scrutiny of the processes related to the parliament’s activities.
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See: I. Kurmanov, Zakonodatelnaia vlast Kyrgyzskoy Respubliki v globaliziruiushchemsia mire: evolutsia, problemy,perspektivy, Bishkek, 2012, pp. 48-66.
Konstitutsia Kyrgyzskoy Respubliki, Bishkek, 1995.
See: Emergence and Development of the Parliament and Parliamentarism in Kyrgyzstan. Materials of Scientific-Practical Conference of 5-6 October, 2009, ed. by Ch. Baekov, Z. Kurmanov, A. Jakishev et al., Bishkek, 2010, p. 29 (in Russian).
See: Ibid., p. 27.
Summary of monitoring of media coverage of the election campaign in the Kyrgyz Republic (pre-term parliamentary elections (November-December 2007), available at [http://www.monitoring.kg/?pid=144], 16 December, 2007 (in Russian).
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