Wypowiedzi publiczne Bakijewa w ujęciu dyskursywnym

Protests in the postsoviet republics and, very recently, in Middle East and North African countries have focused attention again on the subject of the revolution. This paper is interested in events which happened in Kyrygyzstan in March 2005 commonly labeled as “the tulip revolution”. However, the aim of the article is not to provide objective depiction of the events or the answer the question what really was “the Tulip revolution”. Instead, it seeks to reveal the mechanisms of the interpretation and discursive construction of the events of March 2005 in the acts of public communication addressed to the people by the major beneficiary of these events, the incumbent president Kurmanbek Bakiev.