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...has been independent since 1991, and holds much potential for mining, hydroelectricity, dairy products and tourism. Poverty and corruption fuelled a revolt in 2005 after claims of interference in parliamentary elections.
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It is said that the country's second largest city, Osh, was founded by Adam after he was expelled from the garden of Eden. In fact, the Kyrgyz were a nomadic people until being forced to settle in villages by the Russians. A similar discrepancy can be seen between the pervasive belief that allegiance to any religion other than Islam would be a betrayal of Kyrgyz identity and the fact that Islam did not reach the country until the seventeenth century. |
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A country of striking beauty and towering peaks, Kyrgyzstan became independent with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
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Kyrgyzstan
