Nikolay Timofeyevich Tanayev (; 5 November 1945 – 19 July 2020) was a Kyrgyz politician, who served as the

Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan The chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of Kyrgyzstan, formerly known as the prime minister of Kyrgyzstan, chairs the Cabinet of Ministers of the Kyrgyz Republic. Powers Until 2010, the President of Kyrgyzstan, president was in a stronger ...

from 2002 to 2005, under

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Askar Akayev Askar Akayevich Akayev (, ; born 10 November 1944) is a Kyrgyz former politician who served as President of Kyrgyzstan from 1990 until being overthrown in the March 2005 Tulip Revolution. Education and early career Akayev was born in Kyzyl-B ...

Career

He served as Deputy Prime Minister under

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and was made acting PM on 22 May 2002 after Akayev fired Bakiyev. He officially became PM eight days later when the Supreme Council confirmed him. As Prime Minister he survived a

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vote on 8 April 2004. The legislature voted 27 to 14 to remove him from office, short of the necessary 30 votes. He was the first ethnic non-Asian Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan since independence.

Revolution and exile

On 24 March 2005 Tanayev resigned as Prime Minister in the midst of the

Tulip Revolution The Tulip Revolution, also known as the First Kyrgyz Revolution, led to Kyrgyzstan's then-President of Kyrgyzstan, President Askar Akayev's fall from power. The revolution began after Kyrgyz parliamentary elections, 2005, parliamentary elections ...

. Almost a month later he became special envoy for foreign economic relations in his native

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region in

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. However, by June the Acting Prosecutor-General, Azimbek Beknazarov told Parliament that his office had issued an order for Tanayev's arrest. One of the charges relates to 40 million soms ($977,000) in state funds allegedly transferred to a company controlled by his son. He lived in exile in

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on 6 Bolshaya Morskaya Street.

References

External links

Official webpage

Government Website
1945 births 2020 deaths People from Mokshansky District Prime ministers of Kyrgyzstan Deputy prime ministers of Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstani people of Russian descent Heads of government who were later imprisoned Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia {{Kyrgyzstan-politician-stub