Revolution, ethnic violence, and democratic elections — these events shaped the year 2010 in the small Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan. This turmoil in Kyrgyzstan, a former Soviet republic that hosts military bases from both the United States and Russia, is the subject of a new documentary film that will be shown at Stetson University at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 2.

The film event is free and open to the public and will be held in the Rinker Auditorium of the Lynn Business Center, 345 N. Woodland Blvd., DeLand.

Filmmakers Thomas Lahusen, from the University of Toronto, and Gulzat Egemberdieva, a journalist from Kyrgyzstan, will present the film and answer questions afterward.

The film is narrated by Stetson Political Science and Russian Studies Professor Eugene Huskey, a specialist on politics in Kyrgyzstan, through which most American troops serving in Afghanistan are deployed.

The event is sponsored by the Russian studies program. For more information, contact Julie Zischkau in the Russian Studies Center, (386) 822-7381, or Huskey, (386) 822-7576.