Kyrgyzstan's interim government appealed to Russia on Saturday to send peacekeeping troops to restore order after at least 50 people were killed in ethnic riots in the south of the ex-Soviet Central Asian republic. "We need the entry of outside armed forces to calm the situation down," interim government leader Roza Otunbayeva told reporters. "We have appealed to Russia for help and I have already signed such a letter for President Dmitry Medvedev," she was quoted as saying by Reuters.
