The early April upheaval in Kyrgyzstan is helping to define what the Collective Security Treaty Organization is, and is not.

Kazakhstan, currently chairing the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), by extricating the former Kyrgyz President, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, from internal exile in Jalalabad has highlighted opaque features of the crisis.

Kyrgyzstan's opposition says it has taken control of the government and dissolved parliament after a day of violent unrest that left at least 68 people dead and hundreds more wounded.

As President Kurmanbek Bakiyev confronts a political crisis in Kyrgyzstan, he is not getting any help from Moscow. If anything, the Kremlin appears intent on turning up the heat on the embattled Kyrgyz leader.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his Kyrgyz counterpart Kurmanbek Bakiyev, exchange the signed copies of a joint memorandum on Russia's new base in Kyrgyzstan during their meeting at Cholpon-Ata.

Speculation has recently mounted that Bishkek will agree to a request from Moscow to open a new Russian military base in southern Kyrgyzstan.

As Kyrgyzstan's parliament prepares to take up the question of closing the U.S. air base at Manas Airport, it appears Kyrgyzstan's "multivector" foreign policy may be coming to an end.

The interests of Kyrgyzstan and, accordingly, its policy with respect to the U.S. during the years of independence have not gone beyond the corridor of commercial preferences.

ALISHER KHAMIDOV

The developments in Kyrgyzstan are claiming much of our attention. We're still receiving controversial reports and updates from Kyrgyzstan. Many of us are grappling with similar questions: What's happening in Kyrgyzstan? Are we talking about another Tulip revolution? How are the current protests similar or different from the Tulip revolution? So what are broader patterns here?

DENIS KIM

In December 2009, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, President of Kyrgyzstan, launched the constitutional reform. The official reason is the constitutional amendments are needed to define the powers of the President, the Parliament and the Cabinet, considering the administrative reform in Kyrgyzstan.

DENIS KIM

All the main political and economic resources will be concentrated in Kurmanbek Bakiyev's hands. Strengthening of the presidential power in the republic can be regarded as a result of Kurmanbek Bakiyev’s winning the July 2009 presidential election by a landslide.

DAVID GOZER

Now Kyrgyzstan is one of the states whose corruption level is the highest in the world. President Kurmanbek Bakiyev knows that and means to alter the tendency reforming the government administration system.

AZAMAT TEMIRKULOV

President Bakiyev’s decision is reasonable. This is not a redistribution of powers between the Parliament and the President or between the President and the Cabinet in favor of Kurmanbek Bakiyev.

The case of Kurmanbek Bakiyev is consistent with the logic of the Belarusian authorities’ actions towards the plane crash near Smolensk. The decisions not to demonstrate the “Katyn” film and not to announce the mourning were made emotionally, to spite Moscow and Warsaw, without thinking about their consequences and about reaction of the society and the neighbouring countries.