Kyrgyzstan News Resources and Videos

I am not a Central Asianist, but given the importance of Kyrgyzstan to the US (due to Manas, Manas, and Manas, but mostly Manas), I thought I'd offer a few useful links for those looking for background or current news updates on what seems to have been another ex-Soviet "color revolution" (their last one was Tulip: what will this one be?):

• Eurasianet.org's Kyrgyzstan headlines page is a good aggregator;
  
• Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty covers it at their main site and with Kyrgyz news collected here;
  
• The Registan group blog, which concentrates on Central Asia; note particularly this post on how the Internet has been more central to this upheaval than to the "Tulip Revolution" in 2005.
• The Russian English-language news RT (Russia Today) is following events there; their YouTube channel is here;
  
• The BBC of course;
• Voice of America's Asia coverage;
• On Twitter, #Kyrgyzstan, #kyrgyzstan, #kyrgyz, and #bishkek all seem pretty active.

Some video reports. Al-Jazeera English is reporting that President Bakiyev has left Bishkek and has "relocated" to Osh, his power base:



Two English language news reports with dramatic video from RT's YouTube channel: