Category: Kyrgyzstan

What is the UK’s “Grey Eminence”, Charles Garrett, Doing in Kyrgyzstan?

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

It has long been noticed that the candidates appointed as US and UK diplomatic ambassadors all have impressive experience of military or intelligence service, which in a way shows that the tasks these countries assign to their foreign representative offices are rather of military and strategic nature, than simply a diplomatic mission.

What is the UK’s “Grey Eminence”, Charles Garrett, Doing in Kyrgyzstan?

[2011] BBC man quits after claims he helped to topple president in Kyrgyzstan revolt

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

BBC man quits after claims he helped to topple president in Kyrgyzstan revolt

Arslan Koichiev, 45, who presented and produced a daily show for the country’s six million people, allegedly acted as mentor for a rebel leader. The BBC World Service presenter was even pursued by secret police who tried to kill him with acid, according to the new children’s minister of Kyrgyzstan, Aliasbek Alymkulov.

Mr Alymkulov claimed that Koichiev arranged secret meetings “through the BBC” and marched on the presidential palace during the April 7 uprising last year. In a further bizarre twist, Koichiev, 45, is accused of appearing on a Kyrgyz radio station under a pseudonym and disguising his voice. He denies the claims.