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RFE/RL: Kyrgyz president-elect’s brother appointed ambassador to Ukraine

By Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

Published Nov. 16, 2017 at 8:58 pm

Presidential candidate Sooronbai Jeenbekov casts his ballot at a polling station during the presidential election in Bishkek, on Oct. 15, 2017.

Photo by AFP

A brother of Kyrgyzstan’s president-elect, Sooronbai Jeenbekov, has been appointed as Kyrgyzstan’s new ambassador to Ukraine.

Kyrgyzstan’s presidential website said on November 16 that President Almazbek Atambaev had signed a decree appointing Jusupbek Sharipov as Bishkek’s ambassador to Kyiv.