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Credit: Reuters/Vasily Fedosenko OSH Kyrgyzstan (Reuters) - Kyrgyz soldiers voted on Friday in the first stage of a referendum to create what will be Central Asia's only parliamentary democracy, two weeks after ethnic clashes killed more than 250 people. World | Russia Nearly 2,000 soldiers filed into polling booths in a university in Osh, epicenter of the bloodshed, two days before the main round of voting which the interim government hopes will cement its rule of the poor but strategically important country. "The boys are voting today so they can be on high alert on election day," said Abdykalyk Boltabayev, a local election commission official. The interim government, which assumed power after a popular revolt in April overthrew the president, says the vote is crucial to restoring order in the south of the country after the violence between ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbeks. Hundreds of thousands were forced to flee the fighting. Interim leader Roza Otunbayeva has rejected calls to postpone the referendum. She needs the vote to give legitimacy to a government that has not formally been voted in, and to pave the way for formal diplomatic recognition. The United States and Russia, which operate military bases in Kyrgyzstan, are anxious that the turmoil does not spread to other parts of Central Asia, a former Soviet region rich in oil and gas and lying on a drug-trafficking route from Afghanistan. "We hope the electoral process will form a fully fledged government capable of resolving the problems facing the state. Otherwise Kyrgyzstan faces degradation and, unfortunately, it's entirely possible it will split into parts," Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said during a visit to Washington. "We are all concerned that, in these conditions, radicals could come to power and then we will have to resolve the same sort of problems that we are tackling in other regions," he said. "For example, the problems being tackled in Afghanistan." The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), a Russia-led grouping of former Soviet republics, is sending helicopters and armored vehicles to lend support, Alik Orozov, secretary of Kyrgyzstan's security council, told reporters. But the CSTO, whose secretary general Nikolai Bordyuzha visited Kyrgyzstan on Friday, will not send troops. Russia also declined a request to send peacekeeping troops at the height of the violence. Military helicopters flew low over central Osh as soldiers used tree branches to sweep dust and litter from the streets. A billboard in the city center urged people to vote with the slogan: "Osh is our favorite city." A curfew in Osh will be lifted from midnight local time. "Of course it's scary, but we have to be out on the streets to protect the people," said Irina, an ethnic Russian sergeant in the Kyrgyz army, who declined to give her last name. "Everyone always lived in peace, side by side, but all of a sudden they are at war." DIVISIONS Organizing the vote in volatile regions in the south -- separated from the more industrialized north by a mountain range -- will be a challenge for interim leaders who have never fully controlled the stronghold of ousted president Kurmanbek Bakiyev. The clashes have deepened divisions between Kyrgyz and Uzbeks, whose populations are roughly equal in the south. Both sides say they were attacked by the other and Otunbayeva has said up to 2,000 people may have been killed. The government did not intervene as the violence erupted on June 10. Ethnic Uzbeks say government troops sided with the attackers. Many Uzbek neighborhoods of Osh were burned down. "There is still a lot of tension. There could be provocative acts," local election commission chief Mukhtar Paizyldayev said. There are 82 polling stations and 150,000 registered voters in Osh, he said. 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