This is a translation of the post that Alieva wrote about the confusion with the first book of Kurmanbek Bakiev that was recently published in Kyrgyzstan. The original article in Russian you may find on our Russian version of NewEurasia.Net

The first book of the second president of Kyrgyzstan published last week. The title of the piece is “Every Kyrgyz citizen deserves better life”. As skeptics pointed out this was meant to be a PR action to mark the first anniversary of Bakiev’s presidency.
The leaders of the party “Labor and Unity” that was literally created in the day of Kurmanbek Bakiev’s inauguration assured that the president himself wrote the book not relying on the work of White House’s spin writers.
The party announced that its members were honored to become the first readers of the book that Bakiev personally presented as a gift to “Labor and Unity” to celebrate their common anniversary.
The main confusion of the story is that “Every Kyrgyz citizen deserves better life” turned out to be not quite a book but rather a brochure containing information on the work of the president’s team in the years 2005-2006. The book appeared to be composed of the reports of ministries and local administrations on the state of the social- economic development of the country after the revolution in March 2005.
Though the members of the pro- presidential party assumed that Bakiev was indeed the author of the book. After the confusion became obvious the party admitted its mistake and apologized for “misreading” the message of the president.
The press secretary of the “Labor and Unity” Alexander Ivanov in the disclaimer stressed :

“Since authorship of the book was not specified on the front page we just referred to the names that appeared inside. We assumed that since the president himself presented it to us he must be an author himself. ”

Bakiev never reacted at the PR manipulations of his supporters and, probably, admirers.
It’s worth emphasizing, that the money from the state budget was used for publishing the brochure that confused univocal supporters of the president. Publishing costs have not been yet announced. The book is being disseminated now free of charge and, as it was announced, is aimed solely at providing state officials with essential information on the current development of the republic. Ideally it is meant to become a manual on dos and do nots of the state practices in Kyrgyzstan.
By the way it may be a coincidence but the first president of Kyrgyzstan Askar Akaev also published his first book exactly a year after his inauguration. Every following year if his presidency was marked by a new book release.