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A file picture date 23 July 2009 shows then presidential candidate Kurmanbek Bakiyev after voting outside the polling station during presidential elections in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Friday, Apr. 09, 2010

Open quoteEven though I am President, I don't have any real levers of power. Close quote

  • KURMANBEK BAKIYEV,
  • President of Kyrgyzstan, in an interview with a Russian radio station; he was forced by thousands of opposition protesters to flee the capital, Bishkek
Photo: EPA/YURI KOCHETKOV | Source: AP