Kurmanbek Bakiyev

Kurmanbek Saliyevich Bakiyev (Курманбек Салиевич Бакиев) (born August 1, 1949 in Masadan in Kyrgyzstan.), is the interim Prime Minister and interim president of the Kyrgyz Republic, having been appointed to this position by the upper house of the Kyrgyz Parliament on March 24, 2005, following the ouster, during the Kyrgyz revolution of 2005, of former president Askar Akayev. Bakiyev is the leader of the People's Movement of Kyrgyzstan. A trained economist, he was governor of Chui oblast from April 1997 to December 2000 and Prime Minister from December 21, 2000, to May 22, 2002, when he resigned that position in the aftermath of riot police having shot and killed five anti-Akayev protesters in the southern Kyrgyz town of Aksy.