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Roza Otunbayeva
Image courtesy of the Barack Obama Presidential Library
Roza Otunbayeva
Image courtesy of the Barack Obama Presidential Library

Roza Otunbayeva

Kyrgyz, 1950
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Place ActiveBishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Roza Otunbayeva is a Kyrgyz diplomat and politician who served as the President of of the Kyrgyz Republic from 2010 until 2011. Otunbayeva took office after overseeing a transitional interim government as Kyrgyzstan moved to a parliamentary democracy system. Prior to becoming national leader, Otunbayev was an elected official in the national parliament as a member of the Committee for Constitutional Legislation and State Building.