What are Russia’s FSB officers doing in Kyrgyzstan’s Bishkek?

On the eve of the next "revolution" agents of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) have flied to Bishkek, news agency Bely parakhod reports. In the report publicised also by the online paper Centrasia.ru, it is said, referring to "reliable sources", that within last several days staff officers of Russia's law enforcement bodies have been arriving in small groups to Kyrgyzstan.

Those are not ordinary red-tapists, the agency empasizes, saying that some of them occupy posts of heads of departments of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation. Their purpose is to find out what is the situation in Kyrgyzstan before the forthcoming meeting of opposition, planned November 2. And already officially on November 1, Nikolay Bordyuzha, Secretary General of the Collective Security Council of the CSTO Member States, also arrives to Bishkek.

It is not a secret that today relations between Bishkek and the Kremlin though are externally kept as safe, are actually rather cool, Bely parakhod writes. Kyrgyz authorities have incited Moscow against themselves, first of all, by the secret advances with political foes of the official Russian authorities, the news agency concludes.

It is clear that today the Kremlin cannot remain indifferent as concerns developments in Kyrgyzstan, the agency's comment says. Due to its unpredictable behaviour Kyrgyzstan more a year spoils Russia's nerves of at an external level. Now the analysts in the Kremlin are willing to understand what is to be expected from this country after November 2. Hoe real is the threat of a new revolution? How strong are the positions of opposition? On what the authority of President Kurmanbek Bakiev is based, and how strongly is he keeping? Today the FSB members are privately collecting such information and are also trying to find out the moods of average people in the country, according to the news agency.

Certainly, Russia adheres and will adhere to the policy of non-interference in the internal affairs of Kyrgyzstan, Bely parakhod writes. "However it would not like to unexpectedly collide with the fact of riots in Bishkek, and even with the situation threatening again with the change of authority".