1. Zamira Sydykova served as Kyrgyz ambassador to the United States and Canada from 2005 to 2010, after a career as an opposition journalist, including imprisonment by the government of then-president Askar Akayev.
11 Facts About Zamira Sydykova
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Ambassador Zamira Sydykova has received awards from the International Women's Media Foundation, Human Rights Watch, and Amnesty International.
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Zamira Sydykova was born in Frunze, the capital of Kyrgyzstan in 1960.
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Zamira Sydykova has a Master's of Science in Journalism from Moscow State University and a Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics and Literature from Kyrgyz National University.
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In 1988, Zamira Sydykova became working a reporter for the popular newspaper, Komsomolets Kirgizii, the local organ of the Soviet communist party's youth wing, Komsomol.
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In 1995, Zamira Sydykova was charged with slandering President Askar Akayev for reporting on his foreign bank accounts.
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In 2000, Res Publica and Zamira Sydykova were again found guilty of libel.
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When Zamira Sydykova received the award, Richard Parsons, then president of Time Warner remarked.
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The always dangerous often lonely struggle of journalists like Zamira Sydykova belongs to anyone who believes that our destiny is tied to securing the basic human rights of people everywhere, whoever they are.
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In 2010 Zamira Sydykova received a fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson Center, and was an associate on the Al-Farabi Carnegie Program on Central Asia.
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In 2015, Zamira Sydykova became Editor-in-Chief of Res Publica.