REVOLUTION

Только что участниками митинга был взят Белый Дом! Акаевский режим свергнут!

Sometimes, things just happen so quickly. Yesterday, I made silly forecasts and today, the White House in Bishkek falls to the protesters:

Protesters have forced their way into Kyrgyzstan's main government building on, with one waving a national flag from the second floor of the building and another throwing papers from an upper-storey window.

David Mikosz, head of IFES in Bishkek, says, it's a revolution:

No word yet on what this means or if there will be a counter-revolution but from what I saw today it was a clear revolution.

It must have happened around 2 pm according to Akaevu.net*. They said at around 9:50 British time:

From 5 to 15 thousand supporters of opposition have gathered on the main square of the capital Bishkek. At this moment, as Reuters reports, about a thousand of activists began the storming of the White House.

A picture from the same source, showing today's massive protests in the capital.

Before that, tensions rose due to an attack of pro-Akaev people (earlier called 'proto-Fascists').

"There is a fight going on with sticks and stones between thousands of people," Solovyov said. "It's volatile and people are running in all directions, chasing each other with sticks and stones."

Nevertheless, security forces let the protesters proceed when they took on the White House. There, they brought several people under their control:

The demonstrators brought several high-ranking ministers under control. Essen Topoiev (defence), as well as head of the intelligence service Kalyk Imankulov are in the protesters' custody. Also, Akaev's office has been stormed. He had been in the building two hours before, report Russian media.

The exact whereabouts of the previous leadership are unknown.

*About Akaevu.net:

The regime of Akaev has started the massive attack on the most popular websites of Kyrgyzstan www.gazeta.kg and www.kyrgyz.us both at home and abroad. We continue fighting for freedoms of speech and press, that is why the gazeta.kg team is launching a new website www.akaevu.net informing the visitors about the latest news. The authorities can keep trying to shut down as many websites as they want, but they will never make us keep silent. This mailing list will travel from one domain to another together with the database of users. We will do our best in keeping the world informed!