Update: Kyrgyz PM takes the reign, protests ongoing

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Super interesting time to be a Eurasia watcher.

Important details (I don't know a lot about the situation, but I scanned a few articles form the major trusted sources stateside):
1) Only four parties from several made the threshold of 7% to be admitted to parliament; the top two vote-getters are seen as linked to President Jeenbekov.
2) A member of the opposition has declared himself acting Interior Minister after the official Interior Minister didn't show up to work.
3) Former president Atambayev has been freed from prison. He was in power 2011-2017 and was jailed on corruption charges after leaving office (Editors Note: This was a source of great drama as it involved an armed standoff between the authorities and Atambayev allies and is believed to have centered around a contest for power between the sitting and former president - having a politically active former president is somewhat of a rarity in the post-Soviet space outside the Baltics).
4) The geopolitical implications appear murky. I haven't followed Kyrgyzstan in its current state very intensely, but both Atambayev and Jeenbekov are generally seen as aligned with Russia (America's basing was ended in 2014). The major news sources don't mentioned geopolitical orientations of the opposition, and I'm guessing this is because such is not seen as a top-priority issue (apparently even the opposition in Belarus hasn't really bothered to "poke the bear" on foreign policy issues, which would appear to follow Armenia's example).