Sharipov's Homeland Racked by Pro-Democracy Demonstrations
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/20...yrgyzstan.html

The situation in Kyrghizia might be ameliorated if
the republic's most famous son, Salizhan Sharipov
(http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/sharipov.html),
now in space aboard the International Space Station
(he is a Russian citizen and a cosmonaut), made some
pacifying, unifying remarks. The US could help by
encouraging him to do so, via NASA.

Sharipov is an ethnic Uzbek, from an Uzbek village
that is within the borders of Kyrghizia. Both ethnic
groups are closely-related 'Turkic' cultures.