"There was a chance to keep the Union": the first president independent Kyrgyzstan Askar Akaev — about events of August, 1991

On August 20, 1991 in New Ogareve signing of new allied contracts between the republics of the USSR which provided them more freedom had to take place. Thus the country kept the status of the union with the same abbreviation, but already without mention of a socialist system — the Union of the Soviet Sovereign Republics. However the day before, on August 19, 1991, in the country state of emergency was declared, and the power passed to GKChP. August putsch is remembered by the former head Kyrgyz the Soviet Socialist Republic and the first president of the republic Askar Akaev. Federal state unitary enterprise RAMI "RIA Novosti" © Legion-Media Askar Akaev directed...