From the AP: U.S. officials said Thursday they’re working closely with Russia to respond to the uprising in Kyrgyzstan despite previous conflict over a military base in the Central Asian nation. …

Michael McFaul, Obama’s senior director for Russian affairs, emphasized that the U.S. did not view the conflict as any kind of proxy struggle between the U.S. and Russia, even though Russia previously tried to lay claim to an air base in the country that the U.S. obtained from the regime now under assault. …

"The people that are allegedly running Kyrgyzstan … these are all people we’ve had contact with for many years," McFaul said. "This is not some anti-American coup, that we know for sure. And this is not some sponsored-by-the-Russians coup, there’s just no evidence of that." …

McFaul said there was no specific decision on how the two nations might respond, though he raised the prospect of a cooperative measure such a joint statement.

"We’re trying to keep the peace right now," McFaul said.

"We talked in general terms of things we’ve got to coordinate." (photo: Getty)

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