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A protester sits on a burned out car after street protests in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek
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Poses after the controversial parliamentary elections in the Central Asian Republic of Kyrgyzstan
President Sooronbay Dscheenbekow is in prospect of annulment.
His spokeswoman Tolgonaj Stamaliyeva said that he asked the election management to review the results.
Dscheenbekow is trying to bring the country back to peace, security forces are urged not to shoot demonstrators.
The ex-Soviet republic has already seen two popular uprisings and "knows like no one else the price for peace and stability".
Dscheenbekow therefore called on all forces to reason.
Several opposition parties did not recognize the results of Sunday's election.
On Monday evening there were serious riots in the capital, Bishkek, with hundreds injured and one dead.
Almost 600 people were injured, the Ministry of Health announced on Tuesday.
Kyrgyz media reported that demonstrators had occupied several public buildings, including the seat of government and the mayor's office in Bishkek.
They also freed several politicians from prison, including ex-President Almasbek Atambayev, as the Kyrgyz news agency Akipress reported.
Business people fear looting
After the revolutions of the past, Kyrgyzstan with its more than six million inhabitants is now a parliamentary-presidential republic.
After the fall of President Kurmanbek Bakiyev in 2010, the democratic politician Rosa Otunbajewa took over the leadership in the country.
She was the first woman at the top and by then had implemented unprecedented democratic reforms in the region, which is characterized by authoritarian heads of state.
The role of Parliament has also been strengthened.
But in the completely impoverished state in which Russia still has influence after the collapse of the Soviet Union 30 years ago, there are repeated outbreaks of violence.
Businesspeople feared that, as in the 2005 and 2010 protests, there could be looting.
Many shopkeepers have cleared goods from their shops, reported eyewitnesses.
Telephone and Internet access in Bishkek partially collapsed on Tuesday night.
The important opposition parties Bir Bol and Ata Meken failed in the parliamentary elections on Sunday, according to the central election commission, at the seven percent hurdle.
They accused Scheenbekow of electoral fraud and called for protest.
President Scheenbekow described the protests, some of which were violent, as an attempt by some opponents to illegally take power.
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