Russia is to give Kyrgyzstan 20 million dollars in aid and 30 million dollars in low-interest credit after the unrest that ousted its president, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said Wednesday. He said the 20 million dollars would be for humanitarian aid to help the new interim Kyrgyz government overcome payment arrears and ease the social situation on the impoverished country.
Russian state bank Rosselkhozbank is also ready to provide the 30 million dollars in low-interest credit to Kyrgyzstan's financial institutions, he added at a meeting attended by visiting members of the Kyrgyz interim government. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told the meeting that the protests last week that ousted Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev were an "internal affair of Kyrgyzstan," the ITAR-TASS news agency reported.
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