The Party of Communists of Kyrgyzstan is a political party in Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan , officially the Kyrgyz Republic is one of the world's six independent Turkic states . Located in Central Asia, landlocked and mountainous, Kyrgyzstan is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the southwest and China to the east...

. PKK was founded on June 22, 1992.

It was the largest single party in the Legislative Assembly of Kyrgyzstan between 2001 and 2005 with 15 of the 60 seats. Since 2005 it has only 1 of 75 seats. It was led by Absamat Masaliyev

Absamat Masaliyev

Absamat Masaliyevich Masaliyev was the leader of the Kyrgyz Soviet Socialist Republic before it gained independence, and led the Party of Communists of Kyrgyzstan after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.He began studies at the Mining Technical School in southern Kyrgyzstan in...

, a former leader of the republic in the Sovie

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

t era, until his death in 2004. The present chairman is Bumairam Mamaseitova.

PKK publishes Pravda Kyrgyzstana.

The party is the successor of the Communist Party of Kyrgyzstan

Communist Party of Kyrgyzstan

The Communist Party of Kyrgyzstan is a political party in Kyrgyzstan. KPK was founded on August 21, 1999, following a split in the Party of Communists of Kyrgyzstan.KPK did not participate in the 2000 parliamentary elections....

, the Communist Party which controlled Kyrgyzstan under Soviet rule.