The Russian president said on Wednesday...

"This is Kyrgyzstan"s domestic affair but the form this protest has taken points to an extreme level of public outrage with the authorities," Natalya Timakova quoted him as saying.

The protests, which started in the northwestern Kyrgyz town of Talas on Tuesday, spread to other regions of the Central Asian country, including the capital Bishkek. Some 47 people have been killed and 400 injured, according to health authorities.

"The president thinks that most important thing is that further deaths are prevented and control over the country is restored," she added.

A government formed by opposition in Kyrgyzstan said it has taken full power in the country while the whereabouts of the country"s president, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, remain unknown.

"Kyrgyzstan has been and remains Russia"s strategic partner so we will closely follow the developments in the republic," Timakova said.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said earlier that Bakiyev had repeated

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