On 4th June the President of Kyrgyzstan Kurmanbek Bakiev signed a decree about the assignment of his brother Janybek Bakiev as a chief of the state guard service.

As a matter of fact a low-key post of the main body-guard is one of the key posts in the security agencies system. This post will allow to the brothers Bakievs to control all supreme state officials including the prime-minister, the speaker and the chiefs of the judiciary.

Janybek Bakiev will accept his new duties after 2-year forced break in his state career. A brother of the President hasn’t been holding any state positions since 2006 year, when he had left the post of the first deputy in the State Committee of the National Security after a “matreshka” scandal.

Named “matreshka” scandal happened two years ago. The leader of the opposition Omurbek Tekebaev was detained by Polish special service in accord with the instructions of the Kyrgyz special service at the Warsaw’s airport. There was found a matreshka with heroine in his luggage.

However, an examination told that there wasn’t a neat drug in matreshka, but unknown powder with a small touch of heroine. Polish court considered this circumstance as an evidence of the political provocation against the oppositionist and acquitted Omurbek Tekebaev. Soon the additional details of the provocation were cleared up. Particularly, the chief of the State Committee of the National Security of those days Busurmankul Tabaldiev accepted in the Kyrgyz parliament that his first deputy Janybek Bakiev managed the special operation about the discredit of Omurbek Tekebaev. Actually, his words confirmed that the matreshka with heroine was put stealthily in the oppositionist’s luggage by special services.

A scandal was crumpled, the Kyrgyz court didn’t find corpus delicti in the actions of the brother of the President. This story was forgotten and the career of Janybek Bakiev is recommencing now.

His assignment ends up the turn of the recent moves in the security and government agencies. Now at the head of security and government agencies are people who trusted to the President. Staff changes started from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. This ministry leaded Moldomusa Kongantiev who has been recently a chief of a small militia station at the airport of Jalalabad city at the south of Kyrgyzstan.

Kurmanbek Bakiev also moved one of the hero of the Tulip revolution and the head of the Ministry of Defense Ismail Isakov to the post of the Secretary of Security. A new chief of the Ministry of Defense became Bakytbek Kalyev, ex-body-guard of the President.

Besides, Adahan Madumarov left the Speaker’s post in the end of May. An official reason of the resignation of Adahan Madumarov is considered a scandal around the question of decorating the parliament’s hall with the expensive walnut woodknob. But some observers think that the President Bakiev used this “walnut scandal” to consolidate his power triggering the resignation of inconvenient and arrogant politician.

Privately, Janybek Bakiev is considered one of the shady leader of the Kyrgyzstan. According to ex general prosecutor and oppositionist Azimbek Beknazarov, 50-year old Janybek Bakiev is a head of the influential group in the environment of the president. There are countrymen from Jalalabad region and security agencies in this group. The elder son of the President Maksim Bakiev is head of another influential group which consists of the well-off businessmen.

Ex-secretary of Security Council Miroslav Nijazov told in the interview to “Commersant” that the assignment of the brother of the President undermines the moral principles of the government and will promote to the future degradation of it.

“President understands that people are dissatisfied with him and tries to centralize a power as much as possible trusting the key positions only to the closest people in case not to loose a power. The state management including the security agencies needs to be seriously reformed. But the last assignments of Kurmanbek Bakiev can bring Kyrgyzstan back to the Middle Ages”, Nijazov told to “Commersant”.

“This assignment won’t influence on the political situation in country. People are already used to the unequal actions of the authorities and accept them indifferently. The most literate part of the population which could protest is leaving the republic”, the chief of the Institute of the Public Politic Muratbek Imanaliev told in the interview to “Commersant”.

Judging by the recent interview of Janybek Bakiev he doesn’t expect any resentment. According his words every spring and autumn, an opposition treats people with something to be happened, but time is passing and nothing happens.

This is a translation of the russian article in “Commersant” Russian newspaper.