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The Kyrgyz National Security Service has narrowed the range of possible motives behind the June 10 murder of deputy Zhyrgalbek Surabaldiyev to two, service chief Tashtemir Aitbayev told a parliamentary session on Tuesday. \"The investigation centers on a criminal dispute theory as well as a theory linked to ownership disagreements over one of the republic\'s car markets [Surabaldiyev owned a car market],\" Aitbayev said. The investigation has established that the deputy was murdered by two young men of Asian and European appearance, who fled the scene of the crime in a white Mercedes car, which was found burnt outside Bishkek on June 11, he said.

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Pervomaisky district court in Bishkek has declined the lawsuit of Bermet Akayeva, the daughter of the former Kyrgyz president, to invalidate the decision of the Central Elections Commission stripping her of her mandate. Her lawyer Svetlana Sorokina told Interfax on Tuesday that on Monday evening the court upheld the decision of the Central Elections Commission. \"Akayeva\'s lawyers and Akayeva herself are dissatisfied with the ruling of the district court and plan to protest it in the Supreme Court within 10 days,\" she said.

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A court in Almaty on 13 June ordered former Information Minister Altynbek Sarsenbaev to pay 1 million tenges ($7,500) in damages for defaming Khabar Agency. Khabar had initially sought 50 million tenges in damages. Sarsenbaev must also publicly retract the comments he made in a 1 October 2004 interview with the opposition newspaper \"Respublika\" in which he alleged that Khabar was part of a monopolistic media holding controlled by Darigha Nazarbaeva, daughter of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev, the Navigator website (http://www.