'''Nikolay Timofeyevich Tanayev''' (in Russian: '''Николай Тимофеевич Танаев'''), born November_5, 1945, was the Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan from 2002 to 2005, serving under President Askar_Akayev. He is an ethnic Russian. He was Deputy Prime Minister under Kurmanbek_Bakiyev and was made acting PM on May_22 2002 after Bakiyev was sacked. He officially became PM eight days later when he was confirmed by parliament. Tanayev was born in Mihailovka village in Penzenskaya oblast. As Prime Minister, he survived a no confidence vote on April_8, 2004: the legislature voted 27 to 14 to remove him from office, but was short of the necessary 30 votes.Bruce Pannier, "Kyrgyzstan: Prime Minister Narrowly Survives Confidence Vote", Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, April 9, 2004. On March_24, 2005, Tanayev resigned as Prime Minister in the midst of a violent takeover of the capital, Bishkek, by anti-government protesters. Almost a month later he was named as the special envoy for foreign economic relations in his native Penza region in Russia. However by June the Acting Prosecutor-General, Azimbek_Beknazarov told parliament that his office had issued an order for Tanayev's arrest. One of the charges relates to 40 million soms ($977,000) in state funds allegedly transferred to a company controlled by his son. ==Quotations== "Not the President, not me, and not the Interior_minister will allow weapons to be used against our own people" March_20, 2005, responding to claims that force could be used to quash post-election protests. ==References== ==External links== *Official webpage *Government Website {{start box}} {{succession box|before=Kurmanbek_Bakiyev|title=Prime_Minister_of_Kyrgyzstan|years=2002–2005|after=Kurmanbek_Bakiyev
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