Nikolai Tanayev

Nikolay Timofeyevich Tanayev (born November 5, 1945) is the Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan. He is an ethnic Russian. He was Deputy Prime Minister under Kurmanbek Bakiyev and was made acting PM on May 22 2002 after Bakiyev was sacked. He officially became PM eight days later when he was confirmed by parliament.

He survived a confidence vote on April 8, 2004: the legislature voted 27 to 14 to remove him from office, but this was short of the necessary 30 votes.